Playing Captivate HTML5 Projects

Hi All,
I've created a series of tutorials using Captivate 7 and when I upload them to Sharepoint or Dropbox to share with colleagues the HTML5 file doesn't open the project rather it leads to a blank page. However when I open it locally it plays fine. I've pushed the entire folder out to both Sharepoint and Dropbox so I'm not sure why the files aren't being read/linked or why I can't play them. Any ideas are appreciated.
Note that I do have some animated text but it still plays locally just fine. Also, I don't have the Scalable HTML Content box checked when publishing. I also use Fade for slide transitions. Do I need to make a project for each output???

You may need to post it to a webserver. Dropbox is more for file sharing and it doesn't have the software to run the files as HTML or swf. You could have them download a zip file of the project, unzip it locally, and then run the multiscreen file to launch the porject using their browser. It should fire up automatically when they double click the multiscreen file.

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