Multiple Flash Movies in Captivate 1.0

ok, heres the problem!
I have imported a sound control into captivate which gives me
better savings on the audio file size rather than letting captivate
do the compression. These controls are limited to play and pause.
well the problem is that I forgot to add a 'rdcmndPause = 1'
command to the pause button actionscript and a subsequent
'rdcmndResume = 1'. So although the narration is pausing and
playing as you would expect, unfortunetly the slides are still
playing onwards.
has anyone taken a stab at controlling imported flash
animations from other movies?
I suppose the concept is that rather than re-export all of my
narration files across again with the additional actionscript I
would like to be able to add a small 'widget' which checks the
status of the sound file and acts accordingly?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

It seems that when you import an external flash movie into
Captivate 1, the full path is...
"_level0.slide0__image_mc.s0_i9_swf_mc.m_swf_mc"
...this was the start of the solution for my problem so I
thought it best to post in case it helps out anyone else.
BTW - The slide number changes (obviously) and so does the
'i' reference depending on the attributes you have given to your
imported movies.

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Hi Tristan,
Thanks for the reply and the great code!
I tried it out and got the dynamic text field to display that it had found the main timeline, however, it still would not advance properly. Maybe I'm not doing something right with it. Here's how I had it:
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<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="loop" value="0">
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value="false" /> and play="false", you achieve the goal of
displaying the movie in a "paused to begin with" state.
Amended code is below

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN"
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8">
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http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0"
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type="application/x-shockwave-flash" menu="false"></embed>
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I imported a Flash movie (created in 8, saved in 6 to work
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parts on the left. The student needs to drag the engine part name
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Captivate? I tried exporting the project to Flash 8 and got a
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Click here to
see the page
Captivate can be coaxed to work with Flash 8. Take a look at
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