Custom TOC and player controls

I would like to customize the entire player and TOC navigation for my captivate project. 
For example, I would love to have my clients logo above the TOC and create a custom look and feel to the entire experience. Example I would model the design after: http://www.articulate.com/community/showcase/?page_id=96  
Can you elaborate on the steps I need to take to create a custom look and feel to the navigation and player? Is there detailed documentation I can read on this subject? My friend can write the custom actionscript, I'm just not sure the general overview of the process. When I export the captivate files to Flash CS3, I do not see the TOC or player files?
Thank you!

Unfortunately, I don't think you can customise the TOC much beyond the colour controls given in the navigation settings. However, you can access the Playbar FLA's (sources) in Captivate 4, they're located in the Captivate 4 directory under "FLA/Playback" I believe. (or something similar.)
It is important to note however, that this is rather limited in what you can do in terms of customising the playbar. You can make new buttons, give them a different look and feel and change colours, but beyond that, you can't really do much with their layout, as Captivate either wants them in a tiny little center aligned area, or stretched horizontally across the screen depending on what you choose in the 'skin' navigation settings.
I ended up writing some AS code that would override the button positions, and gave them custom X values to place them in different places on the screen. However it never really worked entirely too well, as I wanted a custom width playbar, and I couldn't get it looking right.
In the end I just decided to make my own playbar in Flash, and import it as a widget. This shouldn't be too hard for your friend if he has a reasonable amount of AS experience. Best place to start is to have a look at the perpetual buttons widget that is provided with Captivate 4. I essentially just built upon that one to add more buttons and functionality that comes from the captivate toolbar.
You can check out the variables you need here: http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2009/05/list_of_system_variables_in_cp.html
It will then just be a matter of making code to make the buttons do what you want by calling/assigning those variables. The hardest part is making a custom playbar, but you can choose to use the Captivate one for ease sake if you want to go that option as well.
Hope that helps!

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    As speedtouch mentioned, OpenDNS is a fantastic solution for website filtering. They have a great set of filters that can be customized and are one of the easiest systems to set up. Simply install an updater app on one of your desktop computers (or directly on your router if it's supported), configure your router to use their DNS servers, and you're good to go. I personally use this system mysefl and it works really well. The only downside in my experience is that there is not a temporary override system (at least, not in the free version that I use). An example of when this might be handy: my wife goes clothes shopping and looking at new bras. Every once in a while, a perfectly legitimate site might get blocked (in this case, probably something I don't want my kid looking at but perfectly fine for my wife). The option to "temporarily override the block" or "temporarily allow" the site would be nice, but it doesn't exist.
    Another FANTASTIC solution that I've used in the past is the Astaro Security Gateway. They have a free home version of their "Software Appliance" that goes above and beyond OpenDNS. I haven't used it in a while, but when I did it was able to not only filter web sites but also monitor Instant Messaging and other online activites. It's a bit more involved as you need your own hardware (I used an old computer with 2 network cards and stuck it in between my router and my broadband modem), but the results are pretty powerful.
    The downside to all these solutions, however, is that they will only work when the TouchPad is on your network. If they connect to a neighbors network of if the go to a friends house, all of these systems will be moot because they are completely bypassed. The only way to monitor that content from ANY network would be to install an application on the device itself and to my knowledge, none exist.

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