Drag and drop flash template in Captivate

Hi,
I'm having troubles inserting drag and drop exercises, generated through a Flash template, into Captivate as a swf. They sometimes work but the result is very instable. Here are two examples with the exact swf : one works fine and the other one doesn't display the buttons. The only difference is a blank slide in the second one...
Has anyone tried this before have any idea?

Michael
Thanks for taking the time to check out the files.
Here's the problem : example 1 shows OK, the buttons are visible and active. These two top buttons (circled in red) are from the embedded swf file, whereas the third one in the bottom was created in Captivate. They have the same look and feel sothat users won't notice the difference.
Now, in example 2, these buttons from the swf file don't show. The Captivate button works fine.
The two swf files are basically clones, nothing has been altered exept for sounds and images. The code is from the Test template that comes with Flash. They work perfectly fine while played alone, but have this behavior where embedded in Captivate.
I have the exact same problem whatever the way I open them (Flash player, Firefox or IE 7), and my Flash player is up to date. Both the swf and the cp are AS 2.

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