Detect Flash version

I have a flash movie exported in version 8, with the flash 8
player detection. It works fine in some browsers, detecting old
players and asking the uder to download a newer version of the
player. But some users can't se anything at all. No movie, no text,
noting. I've not been able to recreate the problem in my own
browser, and i don't know what version o flashplayers they had
installed.
Have any of you come across the same problem and maybe have a
solution to it. The script that detects flash is generated by flash
8 and i have not done anything to the code.

Here's a link if you want to try it. Maybe it could be the
javascript or vb-script, but I don't get any error messages in the
java-console.
If it doesn't work when you try it, please let me know.
http://www.lonesomepine.se/test.htm

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