Jump To Slide Label Instead of Number

Flash CS4
AS2
Captivate 4
Okay - let me scratch your brain here for a second.
I have a custom navigation menu created in Flash - that I've put into Captivate...
I know that I can use this code to jump to a slide number within captivate
btn7_btn.onRelease = function()
_root.cpCmndGotoSlide="23";
_root.rdcmndResume=1;
That works fine and all... I was just wondering, if there was anyway I could jump to a slide label instead of the number.
I'm still editing the project, adding, and subtracting slides - in doing so I have to continue to change that slide number and re-import the flash file into captivate. We give the slides labels in Captivate - is there not any way of making use of this??
I've tried thinking of using some sort of action within Flash/Captivate to associate the slide label, with a variable, or something - and then cross referencing it back into Flash - maybe using an array of some sort in flash to parse the slide names into slide numbers...
any help anyone?

Well. I would think that but it doesn't work at all when working from
flash
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