Importing other Captivate Slides

When I import other captivate slides or objects into my
current project, if I try to save after that point, my system
becomes unstable and Captivate comes up "Not Responding" and will
not close by any means other than a system restart.
Anyone else have this problem?
Solutions??

I am having the same problem. When I import a slide, any
slide, and try to save the project with the imported slide, the
application goes, really, really, slow. My computer has 1GB of Ram.
When Windows XP is finished loading, I still have 500MB of RAM for
applications. I also checked to make sure this incident was not
isolated on my computer. So I installed Captivate 2 on another
computer with 1GB of RAM and it still had the same problem I
described above. The funny thing is, if I leave my computer on
overnight, the import finally works. But that is absurd, Captivate
2 users can't wait more than 5 min for a slide to import. Somebody
help me! Is their an upgrade I am not aware of?

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