Embedding a Captivate 7 SWF into a Captivate 7 project causing error "R6025".

Good day,
I am wondering if anyone else has encountered this issue and how it was resolved (if at all).
Recently, one of our clients contacted us to request we resend a source file (originally built with Captivate 6) due to perceived file corruption. Upon investigating, the file will open correctly on the PC used to develop the slide initially (using Captivate 6), but will crash and cause an error when Captivate 7 attempts to open the file (tested on multiple systems).
The problem file(s) are a parent single slide Captivate project which contains a single slide quiz (which is published out as a SWF and embedded in the parent).
To resolve the issue we figured that recreating both slides in Captivate 7 would be easiest solution. After recreating both from scratch, the same issue occurs. The project can be opened without issue on the development PC with Captivate 7, yet crashes when any other PC with Captivate 7 attempts to open the source file.
Here is a screen cap of the error message which pops-up during the Captivate 7 crash.
Anyone have any ideas how to resolve this issue?
Cheers and thanks,
Patrick

Hi Lilybiri,
Yes, this slide has an CP-Published SWF in the CP-file. This procedure was used on multiple projects without issue. It only appears to have become an issue when Captivate 7 is introduced.
With respect to not having all of the slides in a single project; this has to do with the design of our client's product and the requirement to have every slide be its own project file. We have discussed the merits of not using this approach, but they expressed a reluctance to change the approach (there are internal aspects of their organization at play which we are not privy to).
I am guessing the best bet will be to re-design the approach on this particular problem slide then?
Cheers,
Patrick

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