Getting Audio to play in the Background but only over a small selection of slides?

Hope someone can help with this. I have a module at the moment which I have created and I want to run some cheesy suspense driven quiz show music over my end of module quiz. I have to admit to being fairly new to a lot of Captivate and I have looked at Audio options and am struggling a bit. I want to add Audio to just ten or eleven slides of  the 100 odd in my project. If I add to my project audio as background audio it plays over everything. I see the button to stop it but it appears to be per slide and that seems crazy when I only want it on a  small percentage of the project. I also see I can add audio to individual slides but then the audio stops as the slide pauses which when doing a quiz just doesnt work. Does anyone know if and if so how I can audio to play over just these ten slides without the playing of the music being affected by the playhead. I would have thought multiple audio sources as background music must be something lots of peopel want and use. It cant just be me? Any help woudl be massively appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Jay

Huh. I could have sworn I'd done it before, but I just tried in 5.5 and a 6.0 trial, and the audio section in the properties panel completely disappears when I select mutliple slides... Strange.
It's a shame you had to go through such a long project slide by slide, Jay; I feel your pain. I'm not sure what else to suggest for future projects if that method doesn't work...
If your project doesn't have any other audio, you could perhaps mute the project audio on the slides that you don't want background audio (the Action section in properties allows you to set an "on enter" action when you have mutliple slides selected). Or if you have audio on all your slides but the background audio slides, you could configure the background audio when importing to have 0% volume on slides with audio. But those are two rather specific cases.

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