Import animated GIF from Photoshop?

I have a question... I am unable to create custom animated gif's in Photoshop 5/6 and import them into Captivate 7.  It just says "The GIF file contains errors".  I've tried exporting on multiple settings and still no luck, same with exporting from Fireworks.
I am however able to import an exported gif from Flash, yet the quality is horrible and the transparency is buggy.  Is anyone else having this issue, or is there some setting that I am missing?  Basically I need to animate some images within a Captivate project, without the need of using a .SWF (for HTML5 output). Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.

I experienced this issue with Captivate 8 and Photoshop CC... 
I eventually realized if the animation has any frames with "no delay" I would get the error.  Changing those frames to a 0.1 second delay resolved my issue.  Not sure if this is the same bug you are experiencing but it's worth a try!

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