Flash video with captions

I'm inexperienced with Flash. A client has insisted on a captioned flash video file and we're trying to figure that out using CS5. I've followed the steps outlined in the Adobe help (I think), but when I test the movie, I get no captions. I see an error in the output tab under the stage:
TypeError: Error #1090: XML parser failure: element is malformed.
at fl.video::TimedTextManager/
http://www.adobe.com/2007/flash/flvplayback/internal::xmlLoadEventHandler()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()
I have no idea what this means. Here's what I've done: I dragged the FLV Playback component to the stage. I selected a skin that includes a caption button. I associated an existing flv video with it as its source. Than I dragged the FLVPlaybackCaptioning component to the stage. I set the flvPlaybackName to "flvplayback" which is what I named my FLVPlayback component. I set its source to "captions.xml" which resides in the same folder as the project. This captions file is actually Adobe's sample timedtext caption file that I'm using for testing. The first caption starts at 00:00 so I thought it should work with my video.
If anyone has a surefire method for making captions work with a flash video file, please let me know!
Thanks!

Thanks for getting me on the right track, I have posted a request about "what is the best solution for synced caption" here but got no responce.
I'm new to flash too, I only wanted to do a synced text and sound try, since I already had done it vbscript and javascript I wanted to try flash too.
Look through your XML because XML is strictly, check that you doesn't have use "enter" in your text too.
What I did was to write a simple loader and used timer to sync the text.
I see now that I could have saved me some time, but done is done.
You can look at the script I wrote here
http://www.cicyzone.com/Lyrictest/Samples/FlashCaption.htm
The Xml file that I used:
http://www.cicyzone.com/Lyrictest/Xmlstream.aspx?ID=51998&T=Running+Up+That+Hill
Now that flash have a component for captions was it more easy to find samples too.
I looked at this but it is for CS3
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/captions_flash_video/
Thanks again, and I hope that some one here will help you.
Cato

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