CCS and embedded flash content

I've been working on a site designed around an external CSS
style sheet. Nothing too complex, but I'm dividing a background
image up into several div containers. The page is divided into
three columns with a header or top section where I want to put
flash based navigation.
Everything is working just fine except the adding the flash
nav part. It looks like the only images that can be embedded
through external CSS sheets are background images.
I've researched this extensively and can't find any examples
of embedding a swf inside a div id through an external style sheet.
If anyone has tried this or has a link to an example of how to do
this please point me in the right direction. Embedding the swf
navigation in the pages using the CSS will save me hours of time
adding it to potentially hundreds of pages by hand.
Thanks again...
I'm a nubee loving design process in flash but hating the
implementation into a page.

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I don't know why, the Flash format was originally created by Macromedia, and then Adobe acquired the company, but the Adobe Reader cannot display Flash content.
My PDF file is here:
http://genifer.googlecode.com/files/agi-book.pdf
Scroll to page 37.
The original SWF file is here:
http://genifer.googlecode.com/files/unified-AND-OR.swf
which *can* be played on my Chrome browser.
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A clue is: Adobe Reader asked me to download QuickTime to display media contents. So I downloaded QuickTime. But QuickTime nowadays has removed Flash support. Why did Adobe Reader ask me to download QuickTime to display Flash, when Adobe owns the Flash format?
I have also tried selecting other media players in the Reader's option box (eg, Windows Media, Windows built-in, Adobe Flash, etc) but none of them works.
I have also tried using Adobe Acrobat Professional 9. Same result.
It seems to be a problem with Adobe Reader. Any suggestions?
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Adobe Reader most certainly CAN play embedded Flash content, but only if you embed it properly.
You're seeing a Quicktime warning because you're embedding the SWF as "legacy media" content - this is no longer supported for authoring and is disabled by default for playback.You should use Rich Media Annotations instead (embedding using the multimedia/flash tool in Acrobat 9 or Acrobat X).

Which versions of Acrobat reader supports embedded Flash content?

I was wondering which versions of Acrobat supports Flash files (or Flash content) that might be found embedded within PDF files?
Specifically, does version 6, 7 or 8 have this capability?

The wikipedia entry for Adobe Acrobat says this regarding Acrobat reader version 9:
"Insert FLV (Flash) or H.264 video for direct playback in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader."
The way I read that, it says that the ability to handle pdf files with embedded flash content was introduced with Acrobat reader version 9, and did not exist in earlier versions of Acrobat reader.
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My company standard is IE7
I'm charged with developing flv that will auto play on PC from a removable thumb drive.
in addition it should be able to launch a url.
I'm using CS4 Flash and Dreamweaver
developing on a Mac.
I've used action script 3 to program buttons that start, stop and launch url
I've worked everything out on a Mac.it works fine in Mac environment.
I've gotten swf files to autoplay on PC
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when I try load the html web page on the PC with IE7 the flash content (either a swf or flv embedded using Dreamweaver) does not load.
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If the swf file auto loads and plays then Why is that a problem?
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loader.load( new air.URLRequest(file.url) );
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http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/html/dev/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7e0a.html
Woohoo!

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Hi Everyone,
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I suggest you rethink your approach to avoid nesting.

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You agency can become its own certificate authority and issue certificates to its employees. You'd just have to find a way to implement and manage such a system.

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or on a deserted island for a few months :)
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