Custom TOC WITHIN the Project?

One glaring weakness (in my opinion) of Captivate is the inability to truly customize the TOC. What is included is flat-out ugly, and the customization options are quite limited.
So it hit me today to try this:
Use an Advanced Action, along with a simple shape button to toggle the show/hide of the TOC.
I created a quick example and it works great....problem is, Captivate won't allow a grouped object that is pasted onto a Master slide, or any grouped object (or any object) anywhere to retain it's reference name across slides.
Has anyone else tried this before? I was thinking the only other approach that might work would be to develop the TOC in Flash, export as an AS3 swf, and then import into the Master Slide, and then trigger the showing/hiding of that via a shape button in Captivate. But, although we can import SWF to a Master Slide, we can't give it a reference name and thus cannot manipulate it via an Advanced Action.
Very frustrating....
Is everyone out there just sticking with either the stock TOC, or the not all that much better/different 3rd-party TOC widgets that are out there?
Any approaches I haven't thought of that you could recommend to solve this problem?

Sorry, Rod, to disagree with you. Did you try out that variable? It is working only with overlay TOC for me, not with separate TOC.
Danielle, create a button, for Success action in the Properties panel for this button choose 'Execute Advanced Action'. Then open the Adv. actions dialog box with the small folder icon right to the Script-field. Create this action;
This action will not release the play head.
I talked about that kind of toggle buttons in a recent article on my blog (it was for shape buttons, but actions can also be created for default buttons of course): http://lilybiri.posterous.com/toggle-shape-buttons
Lilybiri

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