Encore CS4 Flash versions of DVDs broken

FLV Flash builds of our DVDs look fine, but navigation is very inconsistent and mostly broken.
F4V output seems to crash the machine before anything gets output.
Everything else is fine, the DVDs work and play perfectly. Has anyone got any ideas about this? It sure would be cool to generate flash versions of our DVD projects for customer approval, feedback etc. But we've never been able to make a flash build actually work completely...
Any guidance would be appreciated.
Kenny

If your server doesn't like spaces in file names, it's likely due to HTML address rules. However, these files won't be linked via HTML, but through the AuthoredContent.xml file directly into the SWF playing in the Flash player, which doesn't have the same limitations as HTML.
If your server is kicking a fuss up about this, replace the single space character in the PNG filename with an underscore character (do this at file system level), then edit the AuthoredContent.xml file and replace the space character in the PNG filename with an underscore character. Save everything, and then upload the files in the same hierarchy that Encore exports.
That should do it.

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Hello Tom,
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"Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:40:06 PM PDT
Joshua E.,
Thank you for your clear response to the issue of not being able to Build to Flash using Encore CS3. I can confirm the 100% accuracy
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as apparently caused by an upgrade to Quicktime that Apple released sometime after Quicktime 7.3.1. I cannot expect Apple to addres
s issues with Adobe software caused by their Quicktime upgrades. I do, however, expect Adobe to see that their software runs on the
latest editions of both Mac OS X and Quicktime. Otherwise, as happened with Encore CS3 and Build to Flash on a Mac, the customer bu
ys the software expecting it to work and it does not. We are in a tough economy now. I need the software from Adobe that supports
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