My Project will not Publish

I was working with Captivate v.1 and upgraded to v. 4. Now I can publish some projects but others will not. When I click the Publish button nothing happens. I do not get an error message. I have tried changing folders, and names and tried to publish as an .exe file and a .swf file and still nothing.
I am currently working on 3 projects with this problem and a deadline looming. I REALLY don't want to trash them and start over.
Help!

Hi there
You might try the following:
1. Turn off compression - Sometimes that will help.
2. If that doesn't work, try closing Captivate and performing a search and destroy of the settings file.
?:\Documents and Settings\??\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe Captivate\captivate_v40.dat
?=Drive letter
??=Your logged in user name
Rename or delete the file and restart Captivate.
3. If all else fails, try creating a new blank project sized identically to the original. Then copy all the slides from the original and paste into the new. Then try to publish.
Cheers... Rick
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