Multiple failure captions on one slide...?

Can anyone offer any advice with this please?
I use Captivate 3 to produce training for software applications. In the past I have tried to limit the amount of buttons and/or click boxes that have failure captions to a maximum of one or two per slide. This is purely to prevent the problem where a previous failure caption appears when an incorrect option is chosen later on in the same slide, even where the click box/button is clearly separated from the next one on the time line and the 'focus' is changed as well. This removed the problem but incresed the file sizes
So, in trying to keep the filesize of my software application movies down I have started building cp files where I have fewer slides with graphic elements appearing and disappearing throughout....the difference in the published files is huge but I now have the problem back where I may have several failure captions corresponding to several click boxes/buttons on the same slide. The 'bad behaviour' is that, again, the first failure caption will appear all the way through any incorrect choices made on any of the remaining click boxes/buttons on that slide.
I have separated all the buttons etc. from each other on the time line but the problem persists. Can I really only have one or two click boxes/buttons with a failure caption on each slide or am I missing something?

Hi there
Have you examined the properties for the objects and enabled the pause for the failures?
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