Adding an animated GIF to a PowerPoint slide

Adding an animated GIF to a PowerPoint slide For some reasons, animated GIFs have stopped working for me in PowerPoint 2003 (on Win XP SP3). This is a problem only with new files - I do have some old presentations where animated GIFs are shown just fine, but when I try to insert a new GIF into a presentation, only the first frame is displayed (both in editing mode and presentation mode).
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"Could this be the issue? Maybe you are saving in an older format that is Powerpoint '97 compatible, or are using an older viewer?

support.microsoft***/kb/247554

There's also info here about certain required flags in the GIF:
books.google***/books?id=S8b6TtYGHi8C&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=powerpoint+animated+gif+don%27t+work&source=bl&ots=qW8f0nCbIY&sig=sP27bFns-XamPg4JStBLIbwfT-M&hl=en&ei=ihUcS9vIO5CYtgeh99SkCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCMQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false"