Importing Flash (Actionscript 2) into Captivate 3

I recently needed to create some buttons that would show an image when the button is clicked and hide it when you click the button again. Since this capability does not appear possible in Captivate 3, I created a button with the appropriate image in Flash. It works fine when I test the Flash file or run it by itself. However, it does not appear to work properly when I insert it into Captivate as an animation. The up, over, and down posistions work on the button, but the image does not display when the button is pressed. The following code was used in Flash:
(keyframe script)
// when swf is loaded
myMC1.onLoad()
myMC1._visible = false;
(button script)
//when our button pressed:
on(press)
//check if its visible
if (myMC1._visible == true) {
  //if it is make them invisible
  myMC1._visible = false;
} else {
  //otherwise make them visible
  myMC1._visible = true;
Any ideas why it works on its own, but not in Captivate?
Darin

I have since tried a different set of code and had some positive results. I used the following in first_btn:
on(press){
if(firstmc._visible)
  firstmc._visible=false;
else
  firstmc._visible=true;
This code works just fin in Captivate 3. The only issue I had then was to initially hide the movieclip. To do that I tried the following code in my movieclip firstmc:
onClipEvent(load) {
firstmc._visible=false;
This worked in so far as it hid the movie clip when I ran the swf. However, now the button does not show the movie clip when clicked. Any ideas?
Darin

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