Video looks great until converted to swf; leaves junk on slides

I'm using Captivate 5 in TCS3 on XP.
This is my first attempt at doing videos.  I'm pretty happy with the end result except that there are shadows of widgets on slides where they shouldn't display.  For example, there is a faint outline of text boxes and drop-down lists on slides that don't have them.
I suspect that there is some sort of setting that must be set when I generate the .swf, but I don't know what it is.
Thanks in advance for the assistance.

Thanks for the excellent suggestion.  I did as you suggested and started by turning off all compression and gradually adding it back in. For me, selecting the following settings worked and left no "ghosts" on the video:
Compress Full Motion Recording SWF file
Retain Slide Quality Settings
Thanks again for all of the assistance.

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