Playing hidden embedded videos in swf?

Hi all,
A plea for help with a problem encountered.
Firstly a big thank you for the help recieved in solving a previous problem, with animations not resetting themselves of frame reset!
My next issue is as follows:
The project I am working on involves a lot of video and Flash games that use video as part of the game.  The current animation has 5 videos embedded and are set to .visible=false at the very start.  The user is then asked to drag an object over various parts of an image.  If they drag the object to the wrong part of the image, the video is set to visible.true and is played. On video completion it is set to .visible=false and the original image is displayed with the user given another attempt at dragging the object to the correct area of the image.
The game works perfectly when published in Flash, but on import to captivate, I get the dragable object and the image, but when the object is dragged to the incorrect sport, nothing happens and the video is not played.  The whole animation just freezes :-(
So, does anyone else have any expereience with hiding/playing embedded videos in an animation with captivate? Any tips?
Thanks for any help!
Tristan

You've got to be kidding me.
One and a half years ago, the product manager (Dennis Griffin) almost sounds surprised to learn that people actually want to use some of the features of Acrobat within the Adobe Reader app. Fast forward to today, and nothing has changed. Adobe Reader still can't play videos, still doesn't offer most of the interactive features that the PDF format (wasn't that your baby, Adobe?) provides, and still is the most basic of apps. Granted, you can get a third-party app like "PDF Expert", but I find it hard to justify to my customers to stick with the PDF format if they need to purchase a separate app just to use their files, because Adobe hasn't managed for the last 18 months to get their own technology working.

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