Importing flash as3 animation: stop commands are ignored in Captivate

I have created a Flash animation in Flash CS5 which has some interactive buttons to go to frames and then stop. The problem is Captivate seems to ignore the stop commands.
When I preview in Flash it works fine, when I preview in Captivate it just keeps on going.
I can't use a click box because I need the user to click one of my interactive buttons to then continue to the nect part of the animation.
I am not a programmer and have just started using Adobe CS5 master edition.
I can add bits of actionscript provided I know how and where :-)
all help for a a dumbo newbie appreciated.....

If your Flash animations are published as AS3, make sure your Captivate movie is also set to publish as AS3 in the Preferences.
Does that do anything?

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> When I tried to import a Flash CS4 animation into
captivate, i get a
> message
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number of frames?
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