Capture/Download flash clip

Hi All,
What is the best way to capture/download embedded flash
video? There are some clips on a few sites that I would like to
save to my hard drive for future viewing.
From firefox I have tried selecting the Tools menu, Page
Info, Media tab, and saving the swf file, but this just appears to
be a 'Control.swf' that when launched, initiates the download of
another .swf (however this 2nd swf file is not available in the
firefox Page Info tool).
TIA,
Danny

Except I've already tried the "double click on the largest file in "activity" stuff and it doesn't work!
I've also tried copying it like showed in the video about Perlan (thanks by the way), but what I gained was a video that was unusable. Not because I didn't have Perlan... since I made the mistake of buying the Pro version of SWF/FLV Player, I'm supposed to have a player for those files, and the downloaded file was .swf
But it doesn't play (it didn't work using the program either).
It's exactly why I'm posting here!
Because all the rest is failing!
Here is a link to one of the pages :
http://video.staracademie.ca/video/20032004_2005-les-grands-moments/les-grands-moments/5172080001/star-acad%C3%A9mie-ii i--grand-moment-5/14348098001
Thanks again

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I've also uninstalled Photoshop. (The uninstallation took 45 minutes.) I can just use GIMP, it's good enough now. Adobe = BANNED, because all that Adobe stands for anymore is VIRAL.
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Thanks for the reply. I forgot to include:
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-- Other software on the machine: Microsoft Office, development tools (Visual Studio, Eclipse with Andriod and RIM plugins, BlackBerry JDE, Sun Java SDK, Firefox, Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, Adobe Reader, Adobe AIR, Adobe Shockwave, Flash Builder, and a few old trusted versions of minor utilities such as WinZip, DivX, Grep, etc.)
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