Keynote cannot play slideshow...

Hi. I hope someone can help me with this problem. Thanks in advance!!!
I've been trying to play slideshow in keynote but it keeps going to slide 4 and then quits the slideshow. No matter what I try, it just doesn't want to play from the start or let me move to the next slide. Please help me out!
Thank you.

Littlequi,
I just had the same thing happen to me. Here is what I believe is happening-- somehow you hit the command to record the slideshow, and you have been recording ever since. So under the File menu, choose "Clear Recording" and see if things don't go back to normal. Just spent an hour trying to figure this out!
-S

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