Publishing Captivate 5.5

I imported a ppt into Captivate. Built the presentation. Now when I publish it there is gray at the bottom of every slide. I've resized the project, and changed some of the preferences and nothing has corrected the issue. I've also imported from PowerPoint many times and I've never seen this type of error before. Any ideas?

Hi Jessica,
Like Lieve pointed, you should not reply using your email, use Adobe Forums via a Web browser, that way you will be able to upload the screenshot, which I would require for this new problem as well.
Can you preview and see if you encounter the same issue?
While republishing keep force republish all sldies -- checked. use Flash player version 10+
If still persists, try copying slides over to a new project.

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But isn't this thread more about an end user having an ability to change text after the Captivate has been published and delivered? I could see where that might be useful if making changes then publishing to create a new output. But I'm interpreting that the situation here is that a Captivate project has been published and delivered, and some mechanism is desired that allows the recipient to modify an external XML file to influence changes in the already compiled Captivate output.
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