Flickering between slides in Captivate 4

Hi,
I'm having some trouble figuring out why my project flickers in between slides in Captivate 4.
Some info on the project:
Each slide's transition on the properties menu is marked as "No transition". Most of the objects on the slide, especially those that appear at the very beginning, are set at "no transition"; others are set as "fade in only" and have at least .5 seconds to fade in.
At first, I had a floating image on each slide as a background image before I realized that I could set a background image. While I was playing around with this, I changed the background color to green just to test it out. It seems that the flicker between slides is whatever color that background color is set to. Black is the least noticeable, it seems...
Then, I set the background image for each slide, but it didn't seem to make a difference. Then, I merged objects, such as the title (same for each slide) and some other non-changing pieces (logo/branding) into the background, and this didn't make much of a difference either.
When I was playing around with the background images, etc., the flickering seemed to stop for a few slide-to-slide transitions, but these "successful" or seamless transitions don't seem to necessarily occur at the same places each time I pre/view them.
Also, I have Adobe Flash Player 9 software on my computer (probably from the Captivate 4 software or from the Adobe CS3 software). I'm aware that there's a new release (10.1), but I've only been able to download plugins for browsers (chrome and firefox, so far), but not the actual software .exe file. Not sure whether its really a FP issue, though, because I've tried opening the project's .swf file in both browsers and the FP 9 and the flickering still occurs in all.
I've seen some evidence of this flickering in other projects before. It may have been a few individual objects, such as a text box here or an image there, and I was somehow always able to fix it, though I never really knew what I did to fix it! The flicker usually just ended up going away! The previous problems were never as grand as they are now (being whole-slide flickers on EACH transition).
Can anyone help me???
It'd be MUCH APPRECIATED!!
Thanks,
Kate

Macnimation,
Flash video can be a bit glitchy in Captivate--especially if the video includes the audio.
In answer to your autodetect concern, is your FLV set to "Pause slide till end of video"?
Then, just thinking out loud, how about a workaround for the audio overlap? Create blank slide (whatever color you want) before the second video--set for 0.1 second or so and "Go to Next Slide". Then navigate to that slide before going to the second video. That might cut the sound off. This might not be the best solution, but it might be the most expedient one. --Leslie

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