Rewind swfs with played question slides

I have a custom Flash player that loads and plays Captivate
swf files. When the player loads a Captivate-generated swf that is
a "question slide", the player is unable to rewind the swf after
the question has been answered. These question slides are limited
to a certain number of attempts. My question is, is there a way,
even when attempts are set to a fixed number, to have my player
rewind the swf after the question has been answered? Is there some
mechanism in the Captivate swf preventing this?

More info: if I place a blank slide before and after the
question slide, and republish, the player will play the first blank
slide, skip the question slide, and play the second blank slide.
There is some property in the question slide that prevents it from
being played or rewound once answered.
Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!

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Hi everyone
I've just begun to use Captivate a month ago, so it is not
that much experience I can contribute with by now.
One thing I have recognized is that I get some problems with
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I have worked on this topic a bit more - and found out, that
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When I delete every other navigation option than the "next
question" (what is it called in english?) button, I get this
problem:
The quiz now "freezes" randomly, not every time, but again
and again. The quiz has both random slides from question pools and
simple question slides.
I have found out, that putting the simple question slides
into question pools and then showing a random slide from those
question pools fixes the problem.
Has anyone experienced problems like that? Other solutions?
Kind regards
Lars
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Hi ImagineerBill and welcome to our community
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Greetings,
I'm delivering a Captivate 5.0 course in Adobe Connect Pro which is recording completion on the last slide through a True/False question slide (a one-question "Quiz").
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