Simple ActionScript in Flash file breaks in Captivate

This is sooooo frustrating! Can anyone help!? :p
I've got a little flash file that has a text box in which I
use a bit of ActionScript to put the current date into.
When I preview the SWF in flash, or publish the SWF, etc. it
works fine!
Then I go to my Captivate project and import the SWF file
with INSERT => ANIMATION.
It looks like it's working, I place it where I want on the
slide and I actually can see the date has been displayed (as per
the preview on the captivate slide)
But when I publish the Captivate file or preview the project,
the date is nowhere to be seen! SO ANNOYING!.
This is the code on my flash file behind the date display
text box (added line numbers for convenience):
1. quizcompletedate=new date();
2. month = new Array("January", "February", "March", "April",
"May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October",
"November", "December");
3. quizcompletedate=(month[quizcompletedate.getMonth()]+"
"+quizcompletedate.getDate()+", "+quizcompletedate.getFullYear());
All works fine in flash, just not when it's inserted into a
captivate slide.
PLEASE HELP?!?!
G.

wow! OK, I actually didn't think that would make much of a
difference! but I'm a step closer...
now the textbox is appearing at least! Thanks Paul_D, but now
a new problem...
When I preview the captivate project now, the text box says:
"undefined undefined, undefined undefined:undefined" - but
remember, it is working in Flash, and it even works in Captivate
when I'm in design view (while I'm working on the slides) it just
doesn't wok in the final product.. any more suggestions???

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