Mouse pointer display

Question

I'm recording an application demo, and having trouble getting
the mouse movements to appear "natural." For example, say that my
project contains 4 slides, each 10 seconds long:
* On Slide 1 (Window #1), the mouse moves to point A and
clicks to select the item at that location
* On Slide 2 (Window #1), the selected item is highlighted
and the mouse remains at point A ("Align to Previous")
* On Slide 3 (Window #1), the mouse moves to point B; mouse
motion begins at 9.0 seconds and lasts 1.0 seconds, so the mouse
movement is at the end of this slide; the mouse clicks to select an
item that will appear on Slide 4
* On Slide 4 (Window #2), the selected item is highlighted
and the mouse remains at point B
During movie preview, when Slide 3 appears the mouse displays
immediately at point B. This doesn't seem right to me--it's way too
soon. Shouldn't the mouse remain at point A when Slide 3 appears,
and 9 seconds later begin its 1-second travel to point B?
Thanks,
Bill

Answer 1

I've seen comments on this forum about the recommended number
of slides, but so far <fingers crossed> I haven't encountered
problems. When it takes 4 to 8 slides just to get the logon
sequence (User Name, Password, click "Login" button) to look
natural, keeping the demo project to less than 65 slides is not
practical. My current project is the second demo in this series;
the first project has 147 slides, most with audio and cursor, some
with highlight boxes. I even recorded at a larger image size than I
needed, and after final editing I reduced the project size to
800x600, and thankfully it seems to be fine.
= = = = =
Now to this "misplaced cursor" issue: I have created a
6-slide project that demonstrates the problem. I did this by
deleting slides 1-19 and 26-203 of my project, then saving the test
project with a new name (A_Test.cp). I added a few text captions
and replaced the audio on each slide. On Slide 4, which is 20
seconds long, you can clearly see that the cursor jumps immediately
to its final location, though the mouse is set to "Display for 0.5
seconds" and "Appear after 19.5 seconds."
Unfortunately, the .cp file for this project is about 92 MB
in size! I discovered that the library for this A_Test project
contains all the audio and background images from the original
203-slide project. How can I remove everything except the items
that "belong" to the remaining 6 slides, so that A_Test.cp will be
only as big as necessary for this 6-slide project?
Thanks again,
Bill