Hide next button ?

Hello everybody,
I'm having some trouble to get my captivate project to work as we want.
let me explain : I have many Quizzes dispatched in many question pools, and I want to hide the 'next' or 'ignore' button while quizz is not complete, but the problem is that you can't decide to do anything differently between the quizz and the quizz review.
I tried to hide next button UNDER the send button so it appears when you reviw but unfortunately captivate developpers decided to put the nex button OVER the send button and give us no way to change that.
Does anyone have a clue to help me do what I want ? I don't understand how nobody ever came through this problem before.
I explain again : i want users not being able to skip questions, and i want them to be able to review quizz normally, but if you don't put the next button in the quizz it wont appear during review so users won't be able to rewiew it.
Mant the more I use this software the more I hate it, please save me and give me a clue to do what I want, it seems so logic ...

The buttons on the Question slides have a stacking order, indeed. My tip is to hide the Skip button by dragging it under the Clear button, which is higher in the stack. Offering the user the ability to clear their answer in case they made a mistake is something rather different than letting them skip quesitons. And mostly I will rename the Skip button to Next, because it will be only visible during Review where it has the function of a Next button.
More details about the functionalities of Question slides and tweaking possibilities in two blog posts:
http://lilybiri.posterous.com/question-question-slides-in-captivate
http://lilybiri.posterous.com/question-question-slides-part-2
I never understand why people 'hate' software, I really like Captivate because of its versatility.
Lilybiri
BTW Welcome to the forum, but please quit hating

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