Linking multiple Captivate files

Hello,
I am creating a course that will be accessible from a folder
on users' desktops. This course is made up of mutiple lessons. Each
lesson is its own CP file. I am looking for guidance in how to best
publish these files so that at the end of Lesson 1, the user can
click a button that says "Go to Lesson 2" and the first lesson file
will close and the second lesson file will open. I would also like
there to be a menu from which they can access all of the lessons.
I am placing the menu and lessons in a folder in the users'
desktops but don't really want the user to go to each lesson on
their own- I would rather they access them all through the Menu
page. Could the menu page be at the top of the folder and then
there would be another folder with the lessons in it called
something like "Lessons" which I could mark as "hidden".
I am using Captivate 2. Should the menu be a CP file that I
output as EXE files and then each lesson is an EXE file? Or is
HTML/SWF better for this?
If you have any thoughts, suggestions, please let me know.
Thanks,
MIchele

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