Adding a swf

Having trouble adding a swf file to my Dreamweaver site. I've
read a lot of posts regarding adding the scripts folder but I'm
unable to view my swf once I add it to Dreamweaver on my computer.
The swf plays fine on its own, just not viewable in Dreamweaver.
Insert - Media - Flash is the way I've done it using CS3 on a Mac
PowerBook Pro.
http://www.billhornstein.com/photography.html
is a link. Any ideas?

It's curious. If I browse directly to the swf file, I can see
it. If I
browse directly to the Active_Content script, I can find it
there. The only
thing I can imagine is that somehow the call to the script is
messed up.
Please make sure that this is all on one line in your page's
code -
<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent(
'codebase','
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','wid th','700','height','500','title','colorslideshow','src','assets/ColorPics/slideshow/slides how','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi? P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','assets/ColorPics/slideshow/slideshow'
); //end AC code
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>I just corrected it and still nothing. The previous swf
didn't have spaces
>either.
http://www.billhornstein.com/photography.html

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