Quiz Questions Randomly Skip

I have noticed that my quizzes, which consist of transparent
button interactions, are randomly skipping slides in my latest
lessons (been over a year since my last ones).
Has anyone else had this issue before? I tried fixing this by
applying an additional invisible button that pauses after .5
seconds to keep slides from being skipped, which works, but keeps
the incorrect caption from displaying.

Michael,
Were you able to solve your slide-skipping problem?
Could you please clarify -- Was Captivate skipping quiz slides or content slides?
If "quiz slides," then we actaully have had a similar problem, which also happened to courses that were part of a set, so to create a new course, we started with some slides from the previously-developed course. We're wondering whether Captivate's problem of skipping questions was related to the developer's having changed Captivate's default 3-minute quiz-slide-duration to 1 minute. When he changed it back to 3 minutes, the quiz seemed to function correctly. However, at one point we were also wondering whether part of the problem may have been related to several courses being related, i.e., having some similar slides.
What have you learned?
Thank you!
Jan

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