Publishing narrated PPT files with Presenter

I work for a large department that is producing more and more narrated PPT presentations to post on our company intranet. I'm the only one who has Presenter, and in trying to keep the instructions simple, the process we've been using requires a USB microphone and the narrating feature in PPT. Basically, I extract the audio files from the PPT document, and package the whole thing together in Presenter. This worked well the first couple of times, but for whatever reason, it's turning into a lot of work for me. I'm going to have to come up with a better process, one that is easy and cheap (ie, free) for the users, but also pain-free for me.
What happens is that I save the PPT file as a web page, which extracts the audio files into separate .wav files, 1 for each slide. In a perfect world, the .wav files end up being named sound1, sound 2, sound 3 (for PPT slide 1, 2, and 3 respectively)... I think the only time that works cleanly is when the narrator does it right the first time, with no mistakes. But lately, every single file I've received ends up with sound files that are not sequentially numbered. Like I could end up with sound17, sound26, and sound128, and 128 might go with slide 5, and sound 17 might go with slide 30... It's bizarre! And since no one includes Notes in their PPT presentation (which will be a requirement in the new process), I end up having to listen to each recording in the original file and write down the first few words, so that I know which sound file goes with which slide!!
So... I'm working on developing a new Best Practice for this process, and the preferred method will be providing me with a PPT presentation (complete with Notes) and separate audio files that I can import using Presenter. I'm having a hard time selling my team on this, because the PPT narration system we had set up was so easy to use and easy to show our users, no one had to use unfamiliar software, no purchases were necessary. Now I'm saying that, while it's still free and nothing needs to be purchased, recording narration will have to be done using Windows Sound Recorder, or better yet, Audacity. Which means a whole new set of instructions, that for some of these folks around here may be difficult to grasp. But the sound quality would be better, and the time and effort required by me would be greatly reduced.
I've search all over the intranet with no luck, I was hoping to find an already established process for doing this that I could "borrow" from... does anyone have any advice, words of wisdom, expert opinion, etc??

You may get better Presenter responses in, surprisngly, the Connect forum...as Presenter seems to be more a subset of that tool than a standalone one.
While we actually have Presenter here, I've only used it once!
We also have Captivate and that's a more-frequent 'go to' tool for us than Presenter.
So the overall issue is, you can't convert PPTs that include audio with Presenter? The audio doesn't work or otherwise come through?
Are you SURE there's no way to do that? That you HAVE to separate out the audio first?
I'm almost certain that if you convert a PPT that contains audio with Captivate that the resulting Captivate file will not only retain the audio but keep in sync'd up with the related slides. It's certainly worth grabbing the trial version of Captivate to confirm that.
If CP doesn't do it for some reason, then surely Articulate Presenter would?
There are so many PPT conversion tools out there, one of them has to be an option to avoid the issue you're having.
So first, be sure Presenter is really limited the way it seems to be. If it is, try Captivate. Far better to get a more capable tool, I think, then try to disrupt an established process (as long as that process is worthwhile and effective, of course).
HTH
Erik

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