Problems Importing Slides / Captivate 3

I have a series of 6 related Captivate projects, plus one I
use as a template. Since there's some shared content, I need to be
able to copy slides from one project to another, but I am having
serious import problems. When I try to import slides from one
project to another, typically what happens is the process runs
(slowly) and then I get one additional blank slide (regardless of
how many I attempted to import). Or nothing at all.
I have tried everything I can think of - importing slides
only (no objects), importing to and from only from very small
projects, excluding question slides from the import, importing
small sets of slides--contiguous and not, clearing the cache,
cleaning up my disk, rebooting...
I am stumped. Is something hosed? Any ideas what else I can
try? I have in the past had no trouble w/importing, even within
this set of files...
I am using Captivate 3 & XP.
Thanks in advance.

I tried out one of Rick's (Captiv8r's) suggestions in an
answer to another post, and so far it seems to have been a miracle
cure for this and some other ills. The solution involves removing
or renaming this file: captivate_v30.dat
Here's the link to the other post, and the solution:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=464&threadid=1358328
Thanks again, Rick!

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