Flash drop target problem in Captivate

I realise that this is more a Flash-specific question, but I thought I'd give the Captivate forum a try as it relates to a Captivate lesson I am trying to put together.
I have an interactive exercise that I have produced in Flash CS4 (Actionscript 2), that involves the user dragging and dropping movieclips onto specific drop targets.
It works fine when run on its own/in a browser etc, but when I insert the movieclip into Captivate to incorporate it into the lesson, the drag/drop functionality doesn't work as it should do anymore (drag/drop still works, but the dropped mc's no longer react to being dropped on the correct targets.)
I'm wondering if this is because Captivate outputs the lesson as an .SWF, so my Flash clip is within a 'container' consisting of the actual Captivate e-learning package itself?
Unfortunately my knowledge of Flash and Captivate is still in its infancy, so any help would be greatly appreciated from anyone with experience of using Flash within Captivate.
Thanks.

Hi kglad,
Thanks for your quick reply. I'm little confused though - this is the line of code I'm suspecting I need to change: -
if (GetProperty ("/Ref_out", _droptarget) eq "/Ref_in") {
Ref_out being the dragged object, Ref_in being the drop target mc. How would I go about using the _name property instead?
Sorry for the stupid question, but I'm struggling to find my way around the Adobe help files on the web - I don't think they're particularly user friendly, but maybe that's just me.

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