that is a very hard part of the game..as was the balloon chase..the only segment of a classic adventure game i hated more was the jungle in Kyrandia III because like the baloon puzzle they intentionally dont have the areas connect rationally indeed in that segment of Kyrandia they switched the left and right sides of the screens when you move between screens ...talk about hard
i hope you made it thru that is a really fun game and I love Sophia, she is a lot of fun to play with esp in the full talkie version which i hope you have the voice acting is great.