Using buttons as a menu to open .swfs or .exes

This should be easy, but I can't figure it out...
I have a single slide Captivate .swf populated with buttons to launch other Captivate .swf or .exe lessons. When a button is clicked, the menu .swf or .exe should close, and the new lesson .swf or .exe opens. All of the lesson .swfs or .exes will also have a button to return to the menu .swf.
Everything needs to be full-screen .swfs or .exes, and NOT in a browser. No matter what I do, linked .exes or .swfs open in a browser!
I have made some progress. I can get the menu .swf or .exe to launch a lesson, but the menu file remains open, and it opens the lesson in a browser.
I basically want it to function as if the menu file was the first slide of a loooooong file, with the menu buttons skipping to the appropriate slide sections, and the ability to return to the menu slide at any point. I just want to do it with separate files.
Bad explanation, I know... but any help appreciated!

I doubt that you will be able to open / close your EXE files as you have envisioned.
I think that the EXE output option from Captivate is designed to deliver single file content. Nothing fancy with menus, opening and closing other projects etc.
Another user brought up a similar issue here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/493200 and there is still no solution to it.
Now I don't really know PowerPoint that well, but if it's so easy to do in PowerPoint why don't you just use that instead then? As far as I know you can import SWFs into Powerpoint so just create your "menu" and "chapters" in Powerpoint and import the Captivate files into those. Then you can save your PowerPoint files as EXE and that should sort out your problem.
/Michael
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