Flash movies "paused at start"

I'm a total newbie to flash, so go easy...:)
I've a flash movie created from a wmv I have, which I want to
play on a website. I've worked out by dragging the flv into Flash
it gives me the options to create the skins for the player etc,
which is all fine. I can even publish it and get it to work -
http://swanningabout.co.uk/flashMovie/movie.html
However, in my "publish settings" options I've ticked "paused
at start". However, as you can see in the above link the movie
plays right away. Looking at the source, the "play" parameter is
flash so I can't see what the problem would be?
Am I missing something?
Many thanks in advance,
Ed Ludlow

Hi Ed
That function is not used for other things then the basic
timeline control.
Therefore what you need is following:
Select your FLVPlayback component and move over to the
properties panel, and set the AutoStart parameter to false.
That's it.
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