Issue playing swf from CD

I've created a training program for employees, using
Captivate 2. The program went out on CD, and now I'm getting a
handful of employees saying that the CD doesn't run on their
computers (company-issued, so basically the same image on all of
them)...What happens is the following: when opening the
presentation, it will speed through several slides and finally
settle on one that looks like 2 slides, one on top of the other.
Initially, I thought some bad disks went out...but then I
tried 2 of the "bad" disks on other computers (again, company
issued, same model, basically the same image) - and both disks
worked perfectly fine!
Anybody else encounter this problem? Could this be a setting
or codec I have to change, or a dvd-rom driver issue? Or a Flash
update or something? I'm at a loss, but need this problem
corrected!
The computers that didn't work are Dell Laptops, models D610,
D620
It did work on a Dell D630
All computers are running Windows XPPro; IE 6.0.2900.2180;
Flash Player 9.0.115.0

Thanks for your quick response, Rick! I'm actually not 100%
positive - the computers with the issues are for remote users (in
various states in the US), so I don't have access to them...I'm
going off what the users told me...I am having them upgrade to the
latest Flash version anyway, and if that doesn't work, I'm going to
have them try downloading the file from our website - to rule out a
bad CD (which I doubt it is, since the same CD works fine in
another computer) or dvd-rom driver issue.
Any other ideas I can try? Thanks again!

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Sorry but we need more information. Your post is similar to walking into a garage and saying your car won't go. It leaves too much to the imagination.
Does it start? Does it go into gear? Does it sputter and die when you press the accelerator pedal? Are the brakes locked up?
So you told us you inserted an FLV and it doesn't play. Where are you expecting to see it play?
Did you expect to see the FLV begin playing immediately upon inserting it on the slide? Like you would if you opened a YouTube page on the web? If so, that doesnt' happen. You just inserted a placeholder that will present the video after you publish your movie.
Did you preview and you aren't seeing the video play during the preview? If so, how exactly did you preview? There are many ways. Perhaps the manner in which you are previewing doesn't allow the video.
Did you publish and you aren't seeing the video after you publish? If so, where are you running the file from? Local PC or did you copy it to a web server?
As you can hopefully see, there aren't any pat answers. We need lots more information.
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