Wierd bug with menus and subtitles on Intel mac

I have found DVDSP4 will not let me place buttons on a menu!! The mouse clicks don't do anything in the menu viewer. I suspect some system incompatibility is this is also why I can't drop a subtitle into the subtitle streams either with DVDSP4 enev though it works fine on DVDSP3 on my G5 machine. Has anyone seen this strange bug before?
I use a Wacom Intuos tablet, have a four-core Intel MacPro with 4GB of RAM, and use a LOT of graphic applications (FC5, Motion, Maya, Poser, Vue, Illustrator, Photoshop, and many molecular modeling packages)
Has anyone seen this problem before (and is there a remedy)?
Thanks
tom hsu

Do you have the Universal Version of DVD SP? I know you mentioned it is academic but did not recall if you have the proper one for the Intel Macs(?)

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In what follows when I say "crash" I mean Encore quits with a standard Windows error. When I say "hang" I mean Encore does not quit but rather becomes an unresponsive process that must be killed manually using Windows Task Manager.
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Imports fine as either a timeline or asset but no audio track comes
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footage5.avi - XVID XviD 1.1.0 Final, Dolby AC3 48kHz 448kb/s Six
channels (3/2 .1), 716418 KB.
footage6.avi - XVID XviD 1.1.0 Final, Dolby AC3 48kHz 448kb/s Six
channels (3/2 .1), 716418 KB.
footage7.avi - XVID XviD 1.0.3, Dolby AC3 48kHz 448kb/s 6 channels
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footage8.avi - XVID XviD 1.0.3, Dolby AC3 48kHz 448kb/s 6 channels
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Link to Captivate project I created for you all to explore "undefined" error message": http://iti.cscc.edu/drag_and_drop_bug/
Link to this Captivate 8 Project file: http://iti.cscc.edu/drag_and_drop_bug.cptx
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Drag the Yellow (or variable drag box) to the drag target and then use the undo or reset.
Move both draggable boxes to the drag target and use the undo and reset buttons...
Anyhow, I know you all are sharp and will run the demo through its paces.
I'd really be very honored if anyone help me figure out how I could (when publishing out to HTML5) no longer have the "undefined" error message show up when using drag-and-drop with a variable for shape text. This technique has been well received at the college I work at...and I have many future project requests for using such an idea on a variety of similar interactions. I'd love see a solution or see if this might be a bug Adobe may be able to fix!
I tried to find a solution to the issue documented here for quite some time, but I was not able to find anyone with this problem much less attempting the idea I'm sharing in the help request - save the darn "undefined" message that comes up!
Many thanks in advance for any help and/or direction that you all may be able to provide,
Paul

Hello,
I just wanted to supply a minor update related to my drag-and-drop question/issue stated above:
I did another test using Captivate 7, and found that the undefined error (publishing as HTML5) does not appear and the variable data remains visible - except the variable data turns very small and does not honor any font size related settings.
I did go ahead and submit this to Adobe as a possible bug today.
Thanks again for any help related to this issue. If the issued documented above is solved, it will allow many amazing things to be done using Captivate's drag-and-drop for both regular type projects as well as interaction development for iBooks!
Matter of fact if this issue gets fixed, I'll publish a Blog entry (or video) on way's I've used Captivate's drag-and-drop to create dynamic learning activities for Higher Ed. and for use in iBooks.
~ Paul

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