Flash not playing once uploaded to website

Hopefully someone can help. This seems like it should be so
easy.
When I test flash video .flv locally on my computer,
everything looks and works great. Once I upload the html to my
website, flash no longer plays. Server is Linux but that should not
matter. I'm using Dreamweaver 8. Test code is below. Does anyone
have any suggestions? I've included the FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf
file and other swf in the same directory.
cheers,
Todd
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function MM_CheckFlashVersion(reqVerStr,msg){
with(navigator){
var isIE = (appVersion.indexOf("MSIE") != -1 &&
userAgent.indexOf("Opera") == -1);
var isWin = (appVersion.toLowerCase().indexOf("win") != -1);
if (!isIE || !isWin){
var flashVer = -1;
if (plugins && plugins.length > 0){
var desc = plugins["Shockwave Flash"] ? plugins["Shockwave
Flash"].description : "";
desc = plugins["Shockwave Flash 2.0"] ? plugins["Shockwave
Flash 2.0"].description : desc;
if (desc == "") flashVer = -1;
else{
var descArr = desc.split(" ");
var tempArrMajor = descArr[2].split(".");
var verMajor = tempArrMajor[0];
var tempArrMinor = (descArr[3] != "") ?
descArr[3].split("r") : descArr[4].split("r");
var verMinor = (tempArrMinor[1] > 0) ? tempArrMinor[1] :
0;
flashVer = parseFloat(verMajor + "." + verMinor);
// WebTV has Flash Player 4 or lower -- too low for video
else if (userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("webtv") != -1)
flashVer = 4.0;
var verArr = reqVerStr.split(",");
var reqVer = parseFloat(verArr[0] + "." + verArr[2]);
if (flashVer < reqVer){
if (confirm(msg))
window.location = "
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash";
</script>
<script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body onload="MM_CheckFlashVersion('8,0,0,0','Content on
this page requires a newer version of Macromedia Flash Player. Do
you want to download it now?');">
<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0','widt h','400','height','300','id','FLVPlayer','src','FLVPlayer_Progressive','flashvars','&MM_Co mponentVersion=1&skinName=Clear_Skin_1&streamName=http://www.motopowervideo.com/downloads/ power_valve_pin&autoPlay=false&autoRewind=false','quality','high','scale','noscale','name' ,'FLVPlayer','salign','lt','pluginspage','http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer','mo vie','FLVPlayer_Progressive'
); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0"
width="400" height="300" id="FLVPlayer">
<param name="movie" value="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf"
/>
<param name="salign" value="lt" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="scale" value="noscale" />
<param name="FlashVars"
value="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Clear_Skin_1&streamName=http://www.motopowervideo. com/downloads/power_valve_pin&autoPlay=false&autoRewind=false"
/>
<embed src="FLVPlayer_Progressive.swf"
flashvars="&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Clear_Skin_1&streamName=http://www.motopowervi deo.com/downloads/power_valve_pin&autoPlay=false&autoRewind=false"
quality="high" scale="noscale" width="400" height="300"
name="FLVPlayer" salign="LT" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
/>
</object></noscript>
</body>
</html>

I found the mime settings and added them to the server.
Downloaded the AC_FL_RunContent.js and AC_RunActiveContent.js to
the scripts subdirectory.
Read a bunch of stuff from Adobe and I'm even more confused.
Getting Flash to run is a real Pain! If I don't get it soon, I'm
just going to use links... this is getting ridiculous. This should
be SIMPLE... embed the video , download to the server and GO.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Todd

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