PreLoader/Slide video buffering issues

Hi I am experiencing problems with my project that uses a mixture of slide video and standard Captivate content. The course preloader displays, the content starts to play then, on a slide video, slide the video will stop and the slide video pre-loader will appear before eventually restarting. I don't think it's a band-width thing because I have tested it on a very good connection and the same thing happens.
What I really want is to get the main course pre-loader to include FLV slide video file size in it's assessment of what has to be loaded - to avoid the FLV slide video buffering and showing its own pre-loader.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
I have tried the solutions offered here http://forums.adobe.com/ but unfortunately this introduced other issues.
Also is there any way of changing the default “loading …” text that comes up when a slide video does need to buffer ?
Many thanks for any help

Slide Video FLVs dont get loaded in the pre-loader. Since the videos could be so large, they are loaded only when encounterted in the project (just when video is being seen). You will usually see a "loading..." message here.
Please try this best practices for frequent buffering problems - Many customers resolved similar problems with it by calculating actual video sizes mathing your network capability.
Adobe Captivate 5.0 & 5.5 * Best practices to use slide videos effectively
Regarging customizing the "loading..." screen - this is not supported at present.
Thanks,
Sony

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