Publishing, Captivate 4 - Trouble linking projects - Presentation tomorrow!

We are fairly new users to Captivate and are now trying to publish multiple projects we've created.  They are set to link to one another using the "open other project" option (button preference settings).
Now that they're published we're getting the .htm, .cwf, and the .js files but are still getting errors that they can't find one another.  We also tried putting them all into the same folder instead of the subfolders it creates.
Is there an easy step we're missing or any tips on what might correct this type of issue.
Thanks!

Hi again
Sorry, I have nothing to suggest. Perhaps another author does.
If it worked in 3 and 4 caused an issue, definitely report it as a bug!
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Cheers... Rick
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