I got Articulate Engage into Captivate but am now stuck

I am able to make an Articulate Engage interaction into a Captivate file, I don't know what to do with it after that. This engage interaction is just a piece of a tutorial, not a stand-alone learning object. I was hoping I could publish it as a Captivate file and then stick it in Adobe Presenter like I normally do with Captivate interactions (using insert swf in the presenter tab). However, it is not working. It just looks like it is loading. I understand there are dependent files that must be involved in this process somehow, but I don't understand what I need to do with them. Any assistance is appreciated. I also would be fine with putting my ppt into Captivate if that is easier. I tried that and it just skipped over the slide that was supposed to have the engage interaction on it (with the animation) but maybe I didn't publish it to the right place to find those dependent files.
I followed these instructions to make engage into captivate http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2009/05/shifting_to_adobe_elearning_su_2.html so no need to refer me to there or another similar forum I found on here.
Thank you in advance!
April

Hello,
I had the same problem! The solution I did was to copy and paste the contents of the published Engage (or Quizmaker) main folder into the published Captivate folder. I pasted a screen shot of how the published Captivate folder should look for it to work; The Captivate project is named Captivate file Testing Quiz maker, and you can see all of the published quiz files pasted into the Captivate published folder:
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> When I test the movie in Flash it plays
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> I saved it and imported it into a captivate project and
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> happening. It plays really slow and choppy. If I
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> and then come back to it, it plays really fast
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