Linking Projects

I have published five small captivate 3 movies and linked
them by bot the last button on the page and by the project
preferences at end of project open URL or File and I have connected
to the skin.swf of the appropriate file. To no avail. The next
project will not open. Thinking that perhaps it was because
Captivate 3 publishes to a new file, I dumped all of the out put
files into one big folder. This did not work either. I am stumped
and would greatly appreciate some help.
Thank you!

I am using Captivate 3, creating linked projects to use for
training. If I publish using Flash 7, I get the following error as
it attempts to open the next project:
Adobe Flash Player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation.
The following local application on your computer or network:
D:\\TCStart.swf
is trying to communicate with the Internet-enabled location:
D:\\TCStart.htm
To let this application communicate with the Internet, click
Settings.
You must restart the application after changing the
settings.
Ok. I don't get this because MY settings are correct but
anyone accessing the project gets these.
So, I tried it using Flash 9 setting. When linking two or
more projects together, it just stops at the end of the first one
and doesn't continue.
Any suggestions?
BeasilyTX

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used all upper case names
- It created upper case S2_FS.swf
- Also created upper case S2_FS.htm, which linked to upper
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Sorry, I have nothing to suggest. Perhaps another author does.
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Link is in my sig
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