CP4: slide stuck if user skips the quiz

Hi,
Wondering if anyone could shed some light on where I'm going wrong here. I've got a CP4 project with some instructional slides at the beginning followed by few question slides.
Although these question slides are the "graded" type, I wanted to give the user the ability to retry the questions as much as they like, because they are to be a practice of what they've learnt rather than assess. To achieve this I've set each question slide with "inifinite attempts" option, also set infinite attempts for the quiz preference - "if failing grade" option - so that the learner can revisit the information slides and retry the questions. I've also set the quiz requirement setting as "Optional - the user can skip this quiz" so that users can just browse through the questions without trying them. The "show score at end of quiz" option is disabled (screenshot) because I don't want to show a score as these questions aren't suppose to be assessed.
After the question slides I've got an information slide (let's call it slide 'F1') with just "back" and "next" buttons. The back button goes to the previous question slide and the "Next" button is set to go to the next (let's call it the 'Final slide') slide, which also has a back button. Simples....well that's what I thought.
When testing this project in action, I noticed a small navigation issue. If I skip through all the questions (by pressing the Skip button) and get to slide F1, the next button takes me through to the final slide on the first attempt. Then I clicked the "Back" button on the final slide to come back to slide F1, and now when I click on the next button on slide A1.... the next button is not working. I can't get back to the final slide!
This doesn't happen if the user actually tries the questions. Even if they get all the questions wrong (or correct) this issue doesn't happen. It only happens if the user skips all the questions.
It does sound like something I've got wrong on quiz preferences, but I can't figure out what because I've got the "Optional - the user can skip this quiz" option selected. I even created a whole new sample project from scratch (with standard buttons, question slides, etc) yet this issue is still happening. I also tried the preview mode, publishing with LMS reporting (SCORM 2004 and SCORM 1.2), publishing without reporting, etc, but the issue is stilll there.
Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong here - will be much appreciated. Also let me know if it'll help having a look at the sample project with this issue. I'll arrange some way to send the project to you.
Many thanks

Hi RodWard,
Thanks for your reply
The main reason why I didn't go for the survey type questions, because I wanted to use the instant feedback captions available on graded questions (if correct or if wrong) to give more information to the users when they try a question. On Survey type questions you don't get that option by default. Is there a way that you know of that I can get these kind of feedback captions on survey type questions?
That 'quiz scope' you mentioned on your reply - I think that is the cause of this issue. Shame that it is still looking for completion of the quiz, while the option "Optional - the user can skip this quiz" is selected.
It looks like the best way to workaround this is to create my own question slides with click boxes, buttons and advanced actions (rather than using the default question slides).
Thanks again for your reply RodWard - much appreciated.

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