Playbar overrides slide exit settings

Hi all

I have a number of videos on slides that are optional for learners. These slides are interspersed through the course directly after the slide that refers to them.  They are accessed via buttons which work well, and have a "return to course" button which also works well and directs them back to the slide from which they selected the optional video. All good to that point. I have set the exit settings on the slides which contains the links to the video to "jump to slide" to the next course slide after the ones with the videos. Almost like "leapfrog". In other words, if you don't want to watch the video you simply continue moving forward in the course using the playbar. The problem is that the playbar overrides the exit settings on the slides and instead of jumping to the slide after the ones with the video, it navigates one slide on to the video slides, making the optional content pointless. I know that I can hide the playbar for those slides and place a "next" button on the slides which will jump over the optional video slides, but having a playbar on some slides, and not others, will confuse the learners, and if they navigate backwards at any point, they will still hit the video slides. I have researched branching, but that does not seem to solve the problem. Is there any way to make the playbar adhere to the exit settings of a slide, or alternatively hide the video slides until accessed via the buttons created for that purpose.?

Thanks

Craig