narration issues with animation

[cybertiger]

I have a presentation sent to me by my boss. I have tried to narrate it and
have run into several issues.
1) I would love for the narration to be continous and not stop and start
with each slide, I am coming to the conclusion after hours of trying to do
this that in order to do this I will have to record the audio file seperately
and insert it into the presentation on the first slide, this seems like a
pain but if it will work I will do it. I am afraid that if I record the
entire narration and then insert it, it will only play on the slide i insert
it on. is this true?
2) If each slide must be narrated seperately, thats fine. In trying to do
this I find that my narration audio only starts after the last line of the
slide is displayed. In other words my boss made some slides that require
multiple clicks to show all the content of that particular slide, only after
all the content is showing does the narration audio start. Is ther a way to
fix that so the audio starts at the beginning of the slide, not after all its
content is revealed?

thanks you very much in advance if anyone can answer!