Poor imported audio quality in Captivate 4

Hi Everyone,
I'm having some serious audio quality issues with Captivate 4. I'm recording my audio in Audacity and importing it into Captivate. The audio sounds great in Audacity, Windows Media Player, iTunes, and everything else I've tested it in. However, once I import it into Captivate and press play, it sounds horrible. It's thin, tinny, and robotic. The degradation in quality is considerable. I've tried recording my audio as both .mp3s and .wavs, but they both sound bad once imported. I've also downloaded all of the available patches, including the patch specifically designed to address poor audio quality in Captivate 4. I've tinkered with every audio setting I can find. No luck. I have noticed that the shorter/smaller audio files are less garbled, and really short files are sometimes not garbled at all. I would record directly into Captivate, but the audio sounds even worse when I do that. Anyone have any idea how I can remedy this situation? Just for background info, I'm running Captivate 4 on a macbook running XP via parallels.
Thanks

Hi,
I responded here in the forums because I figure other people might need this info as well.
In Audacity, I go to:
Preferences -> Quality -> Default Sample Format and set it to 16 bit.
Then click OK.
When you record new audio tracks, they should automatically be set to 16 bit.
Does that help?
Shawn
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