Text to Speech Dictionary Editing

Hey everybody.  I'm confused and could stand some help from my fellow Captivators.  I'm trying to edit the user dictionary in the text to speech feature of Captivate 4.  I saw the blog post at http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2009/03/customizing_text_to_speech_pro.html.  I find that the path specified in the post for the dictionary does not exist on my machine, but there are two parallel paths, one for Kate and one for Paul at C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 4\VT\Kate\M16\data-common\userdict and C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 4\VT\Paul\M16\data-common\userdict.  In playing with this, it appears to me that Paul uses Kate's userdict_eng.csv.  But he has his own dictionary in the above path.  If I edit the dictionary in Paul's path, then re-launch Captivate, none of the pronunciation changes take place.  But if I edit Kate's dictionary, then re-launch Captivate, the new pronunciation is spoken by both Kate and Paul.  ????
Am I seeing the right thing here?  If so, it would appear that I should always edit Kate's dictionary and ignore Paul's???  Or am I completely off the mark?
Thanks.

Hi there
Is is possible that after you edited Kate's dictionary you performed another action that caused both to be read in? You might try this by further editing Paul's and seeing if the changes take effect or if it only happens after you also edit Kate's.
Just thinking out loud... Rick
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