You may find that changing the pointer from the default "automatic" to
"visible" helps. Unfortunately AFAIK you can only do this at the start of
every show and cannot change the default.
(Right click > pointer options)

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> I have created a simple ineractive presentation that has an interactive
> controller that controls what slide the presentation jumps to. I have
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> workaround to make interactivity on a presentation reliable. Seems to be the
> same on Version 2002, 2003.