Flash Mask on Captivate Movie

Hi
I am new to Captivate, but Advance flash user. I have bunch of captivate movie that I am embeding in my flash app with loadMovie action. Now I notice that when I load captivate movie in another swf with a mask on top it then non of the Close Caption text shows up and when I put it up over the Mask then text in close caption shows up fine. I am not sure why but I can't get rid of the mask and need know how can I put the captivate movie under the flash mask.
Any help please
Thank you

I'm having the same issue. Were you able to resolve this by any chance?
Thanks!

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