The problem that you've hit here could easily have been avoided by verifying your target audience monitor resolution prior to setting up your Captivate movie size. Once you know the minimum monitor resolution that you have to build for on end user machines, you have to allow for browser chrome, toolbars, etc.
I'm sure having experienced this issue, on subsequent projects you will take the precaution of doing some testing to ensure you don't discover this issue AFTER performing all your captures.
As to a fix for this dilemma:
If you have not already burned too much time on doing the captures, I would suggest you go back and redo them at the proper reduced size which allows for your end user screens. You can resize your current project using the options under Modify > Rescale project, to match the new required size, and then just go through quickly and copy / paste in the new backgrounds. Occasionally, you'll need to replace the entire slide (e.g. where text typing animation is shown). This solution gives you the best looking end result, but it takes the most time.
If the first solution is not possible because you've burned too much time already, you'll be forced to rescale your project down to a size that will allow users to see your playbar. But doing so will mean you lose some crispness in the appearance of onscreen text. This is your quickest solution but not the best-looking.
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