Embedding Flash SWF Skin in External Site

I posted this under the Flash forum as well. My Flash video
displays correctly on my server, however, if I try embedding my
Flash SWF file on an external site – just as you would with
YouTube – the skin does not transfer. The video is the only
thing that displays.
I understand when using components that 2 SWF files are
created when published – SO with that said, is there an HTML
embedding technique to display both the video w/ the skin? If not,
is this something that needs to be corrected within the Flash file.
Any thoughts?

I have this in front of the trace:
myvars.onLoad = function(success){
When I put in the full URL to the attachment on the Google page (i.e., something similar to "myvars.load("https://sites.google.com/a/..../home/department-sites/sales/variables.txt,");" - instead of just "myvars.load("variables.txt");", it doesn't work. So right now its set to just "variables.txt" and the swf file is in the same root location as the variables.txt file on the Google page. I also have a copy of the variables.txt file in the same local directly in which I am running the flash file for testing. So I think when I run it in debug mode, its referencing the variables.txt file in the local directory, rather than the one stored as an attachment on the Google page.
That's what seems so weird...it runs locally in debug mode...but not when I embed it on the Google page. I can also get it to work if I explicity define the variables in the flash file, rather than rely on the external text file. That's the only time I can get it to work on the Google page.
Thank you for your help!

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I have this in front of the trace:
myvars.onLoad = function(success){
When I put in the full URL to the attachment on the Google page (i.e., something similar to "myvars.load("https://sites.google.com/a/..../home/department-sites/sales/variables.txt,");" - instead of just "myvars.load("variables.txt");", it doesn't work. So right now its set to just "variables.txt" and the swf file is in the same root location as the variables.txt file on the Google page. I also have a copy of the variables.txt file in the same local directly in which I am running the flash file for testing. So I think when I run it in debug mode, its referencing the variables.txt file in the local directory, rather than the one stored as an attachment on the Google page.
That's what seems so weird...it runs locally in debug mode...but not when I embed it on the Google page. I can also get it to work if I explicity define the variables in the flash file, rather than rely on the external text file. That's the only time I can get it to work on the Google page.
Thank you for your help!

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Here was my process - I encoded the files with AE and Media Encoder to end up with Transparent FLV's. These, I then setup in Dreamweaver so I could copy the embed code. On my first attempt, it worked PERFECTLY. I was testing one particular flv, got the code and inserted it into the blog page with some special CSS to position it.
The movie played perfectly.
Then things got weird.
I was excited I had a solution, so I went to put another video on another page. No luck. The second page was playing the video from the first page. As if I had copied the same code, but I hadn't. I copied code that was 'pointing' to the new file, but for whatever reason, the new file would not play.
I did EVERYTHING. I deleted all the pages and strted fresh. I deleted the FLV's and reuploaded them. I created different folders and put each flv in it and created index.html files for each (assuming possibly there was a hardcoded element in the FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf). I copied and pasted back and forth for nearly 6 hours.
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Oh god .. here we go again .. Obviously someone has been
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HELP! Embedding Flash with Dreamweaver CS4

Hello i'm have issues with CS4 embedding Flash FLV's.
It won't show up when it's on the server but it's working
locally.
i've uploaded all the files in the scripts folder and the swf
skin files.
But it still won't work server-side.
I did not have this issue with dreamweaver CS3 as i've found
that Dreameaver CS4 seems to
change how the code of how the .FLV is embedded
any ideas??
or is anyone else having this issue?
thanks
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here's is my current test page link with a sample flv video:
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i've also attached the code of the html page it has been
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This script appears to be missing (or uploaded to the wrong
folder)
http://www.lambethdesktop.com/Scripts/swfobject_modified.js
"chilversj" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Hello i'm have issues with CS4 embedding Flash FLV's.
> It won't show up when it's on the server but it's
working locally.
> i've uploaded all the files in the scripts folder and
the swf skin files.
> But it still won't work server-side.
> I did not have this issue with dreamweaver CS3 as i've
found that
> Dreameaver
> CS4 seems to
> change how the code of how the .FLV is embedded
>
> any ideas??
> or is anyone else having this issue?
> thanks
> Jordan
>
> here's is my current test page link with a sample flv
video:
>
http://www.lambethdesktop.com/flashtest/index.html
>
> i've also attached the code of the html page it has been
embedded in.
>
>
>
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8">
> <title>Untitled Document</title>
> <script src="Scripts/swfobject_modified.js"
> type="text/javascript"></script>
> </head>
>
> <body>
> <object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="320"
> height="240" id="FLVPlayer">
> <param name="movie" value="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf"
/>
> <param name="quality" value="high">
> <param name="wmode" value="opaque">
> <param name="scale" value="noscale">
> <param name="salign" value="lt">
> <param name="FlashVars"
>
value="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Clear_Skin_1&streamName=http:
>
//theharnessedge.com/fcys/FCYS08.28.08&autoPlay=true&autoRewind=false"
> />
> <param name="swfversion" value="8,0,0,0">
> 
> <param name="expressinstall"
value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf">
> 
> 
> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
> data="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf" width="320"
height="240">
> 
> <param name="quality" value="high">
> <param name="wmode" value="opaque">
> <param name="scale" value="noscale">
> <param name="salign" value="lt">
> <param name="FlashVars"
>
value="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Clear_Skin_1&streamName=http:
>
//theharnessedge.com/fcys/FCYS08.28.08&autoPlay=true&autoRewind=false"
> />
> <param name="swfversion" value="8,0,0,0">
> <param name="expressinstall"
value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf">
> 
> <div>
> <h4>Content on this page requires a newer version
of Adobe Flash
> Player.</h4>
> <p><a href="
http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img
> src="
http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif"
> alt="Get Adobe Flash player" /></a></p>
> </div>
> 
> </object>
> 
> </object>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> 
> </script>
> </body>
> </html>
>

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I have built a dreamweaver site and embedded a .swf file (a
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