Indesign Portfolio SWF Question

I followed this tutorial:
http://blogs.adobe.com/indesignpost/2011/01/creating-an-interactive-portfolio-with-indesig n/
When I open my swf file the first page has the button I created and is awesome, then I click on the button and it shows the first work that it should......BUT for some reason that I have no idea why; the buttons below the image are gone.
The buttons are not invisible, they are completely missing.
After reading the tutorial (or just being a pro in indesign), what did I do wrong and how can I fix this problem?

Jeffrey, your comments are certainly dead on for CS4 but CS5 has far better capabilities. I'm no expert on this but much of the interactivity in the ID file will survive an export to FLA to be opened in Flash Professional CS5.
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