Publishing files in Adobe Captivate

Hello,
My product is actually Adobe Captivate, as the select your
product option is not working on your support portal, Im submitting
the case under Flash. Please feel free to redirect to the concerned
department.
I am a technical writer and currently I need to create demos
of my company. I have created a demonstration file and I have used
skin on the demo (project>>skin>>BMP Playback>>
Steel).
The thing is when I publish this file, I get 3 outputs:
1. A file that opens in browser
2. A flash file without skin
3. A flash file with the skin
The problem is I cant upload all the 3 files in my system,
and when I try to upload the flash file with skin it doesn't work
(just displays the BMP skin).
Is there anyway I can upload the file or is there a method to
combine the flash file with and without skin?
I tried exporting my demo to flash but the options all
changed. I have a deadline to meet so would apperciate a speedy
response.

I'm sure there are other forum posts about this out there but
I think this is how you do it.
In Captivate go to the Project menu and open the Skin Editor.
On the Borders tab you need to switch off borders.
I think this should give you one file when you output but you
will have to check whether the skin now covers part of your
presentation.
If so you may need to resize your project height to include
the height of the playback control. Go to Project > Resize
project.
Hope this helps.

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