So I have a workaround for now. I'm placing transparent buttons in the blank swf. They're always there but you can't see them. So whatever lectora is doing during the publish phase is being over-ridden (is that a word?). At any rate it works now. I could further tweak the blank swf to time the transparent buttons with the actual movie itself but I'm just glad to get it working at this point I guess I did answer my own question
