Cant get my head around a Transparency problem, help please ;-)

Hi there,
I was wondering if anyone could help? I am new'ish to Flash CS4 so hope I am missing something obvious.
Is it possible to make the background transparent in Flash CS4?
What I am doing;
Editing an image in Fireworks CS4 with a transparent background, the image has a drop shadow.
Exporting as PNG32 to keep transparency.
In Flash CS4; importing image into Flash but with a black screen as cant seem to make it transparent.
I have in Flash gone into 'Window Mode' and selected 'Transparent Windowless' option.
When I have created a very simple appear and hide animation I then export my movie.
When inserted into my webpage all is well and when published it is fine when viewed in Internet Explorer and Firefox but for some reason not in Safari.
In Safari the black box appears in the background so the transparency isn't working
Can this be sorted or should I just hope that no one will view the site using Safari?
Many thanks in advance. P

Hi Rothrock,
Thanks for getting back to me.
I am sure I have the code right as I have looked at a number of forums with this problem. I have inserted as an image the code just incase you have any words of wisdom, cant seem to cut and paste text on this thing!!!! ;-)
I don't use Photoshop I use Fireworks and what I am now doing is creating my images in FW the cut and pasting into Flash. After I have finished I ensure 'window mode' is set to 'transparent windowless', publish and then export the swf.
I then insert this into my webpage.
What is puzzling is that it works fine in Firefox but not Safari. As said earlier wish I hadn't recently downloaded Safari as I always thought if a page worked in Firefox it would work in all recent browsers.
*sigh*

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