Flash Debugger vs Player

I am getting a strange error that happens only in the debugger. The regular flash player itself has no problem running .swf but the debugger throws a type coercion error.
Before this I had issues with security, and external files couldn't be loaded correctly. I am guessing these are still some how connected.
How can aleviate this headache, that I am getting only in the flash debugger.
I assume by matching the configuration of both utilities, but I am not sure how, or if it solve my problems.
-Robert Baindourov

Sounds like whoever wrote the code to check for flash version
stuffed it up.
Without seeing your site, and the script involved in
detecting the flash
version, its impossible to tell why its not working.
Check out the flash detection kit from Adobe that has all you
need to
correctly detect flash versions
Jeckyl

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