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My theory:
The Flood are just that... The Flood. They are either product of evolution or a biological weapon gone wild. But there is no such thing as the pinnacle of evolution, and even of there was, so what? There's no reason to suppose that it is moral or right in any way, when it involves forcibly infecting other races.
Basically the Captive is a Gravemind that humanity captured during their war with the Flood. This turned out to be a mistake, because the Captive can psychologically undermine anyone, with lies and manipulation. He's like Satan.
First he undermined the humans by telling them that the Flood had not been defeated, just decided to retreat. And God knows what else he said.
Then he undermined the Forerunners by converting Mendicant Bias to his cause.
As for the actual Precursors, who knows. Maybe the were just the fascist Forerunners taken to the extreme: while the Forerunners only wiped out races who waged aggressive wars (or more cynically, who threatened Forerunner dominance), the Precursors may actually have wiped out every race they discovered/created who failed to live up to their standards. Maybe the Flood was just one of their 'tests.'
Maybe the Precursors were a race who created other races, and then they created the Forerunners who for whatever reason turned against them. But some of them escaped and continued to 'create.' One such creation was the Flood. Maybe the captive was a gravemind formed by a bunch of escapee precursors who had locked themselves into stasis.
To be honest i don't think you can draw any firm conclusions given the info given in Primordium. I really hope that it was supposed to be confusing and that the final book will clear everything up. Cause otherwise it seems like the author had no intentions of revealing the story of the precursors, he just churned out some vague ideas to maintain the mystery.