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I have played with PowerPoint (PPT) 2000 through PPT2003, with essentially the same presentation.  PPT has some sloppy code, GREAT JOB in doing Bill's work to bring it into Moodle.  Rewrote MoodleDoc's Import powerpoint and jumped up and down with some tips.   Basic message, keep the PowerPoint simple and it will work.

I did not think ImportPPT worked with PPT2003.   However, if Todd did not have trouble with a MAC running PPT2004, then I figured it was my interaction with Bill's 2003 that was the problem     I recreated and saved at least 10 versions of a 5 slide presentation always ending up in a web page folder and imported into my localhost Moodle as a zipfile.   Finally figured out what I needed format in my PPT to get consistant results when I brought it into a lesson.  

Here is something scary. I discovered that PPT does not always get rid of images, even when the page has been deleted.  I used a PPT that somebody else created and I dumbed it down, plus deleted pages.  I was looking at the web folder and noticed saved images that were like ghosts of presentations past that I have never seen before, including in the "original" PPT which was given to me.  So start a clean presentation and if you must, use PPT's import slides from another presentation tool to minimize surprises.      

Started this new thread primarily for Newbies, figured 58 entries in the previous thread was a lot for them to search through.