CP5 - Hidden slides mess up completion

This is more venting than a question.
After months of trying to figure out why the LMS reports "not completed' for most of our courseware, we seem to have pinned it down to hidden slides in the presentation.  We repurpose our content several ways - the hidden slides are part of that.
But it turns out that hidden slides are included when the project is published as SCORM and imported into the LMS.  And if your completion is 100%, the course can never be completed, because the user can never access the hidden slides.
Does this make sense, Adobe?  What's the point of hiding slides if they are included anyway?  I've wasted SO much time on this!
Going to go away and sulk now.

I have the same issue and am glad someone else is as frustrated with this as I am...
It is often necessary to use a hidden slide for various purposes...
Sometimes, I need to create one just to redirct mouse movements...
I dislike the fact that Captivate doesn't allow you to re-set the starting point for the mouse on a slide-by-slide basis...

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