Problems Playing .mov files in Play

Hi All.
I have made a short movie from a LiveType template, and converted it into a regular Mov file, which I have subsequently placed into the first slide of a presentation. This is something I have been doing ever since Keynote came out. Now though, after a few Plays/presentations have run through, the movie stops and stutters and starts and stops. I have tried to find out whether this is a LiveType issue, a QT (latest upgrade) issue, and now Keynote. Whatever issue it is, the fault appears on ALL my Macs which are both Tiger and Leopard -powered - so I know it is not an OS X issue nor a machine issue.
Has anyone else come across this? I have done all the usual tricks and have even re-produced the movie file from scratch, which worked beautifully for the first few presentations, and has now decayed into bad form, just like all the others before it.
It really is quite frustrating so any thoughts from out there would be gratefully received...
Cheers
Chris
Message was edited by: ChrisRR

Hello all, it took me all morning but here is what I found out. When I have the quicktime movie in my last slide and the slideshow is set to loop then the quicktime movie plays for a couple seconds and then stops. If I deselect the loop feature, then it plays fine. So instead of having the video in the last slide I added another slide after it and guess what it works.

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