End options in Captivate 2

I have two Captivate 2 projects that have been created with
skins and borders. I am trying to link them together, so that when
one is completed, the second one downloads. I had luck with this
under Captiavte 1, but in Captiavet 2, I cannot seem to get this
feature to work. Should I link to the HTM file, the actual swf, or
the skin swf? Also, should I use the Open URL or file to open the
HTM or should I use the open other project. I am posting these to
an LMS. Anybody have the correct actions I need to take to get this
to work?
Thanks

TJU
I am linking to the .htm files containing the next captivate
file using the Open URL.
I have been looking for a good explanation on the differences
between Open URL and the Open Other Project option. There is no
good documentation that I've seen on the differences and when to
use one over the other.
It would be ideal if they had an option to do a "loadmovie"
type of function, so it would load the next movie into itself so
that everything would stay on one HTML page and not refresh
everytime. Then we could more easily create a Flash container file
with other navigation and not have to deal with communicating to
these "special" captivate SWF files in their own language.

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