Flash Not Playing

Help a newbie, please....I had a simple site playing a
newsbar done in Flash on the left of the screen - simple scrolling
stuff. Worked fine for a while, before I decided to move the site
from one PC to another, for convenience when travelling. Stil works
fine when I oreview in browser (Firefox or IE), but it doesn't play
when I load and view the site. Everything else works fine.
Can you help? Did I delete something? Note this still happens
when I upload the entire site.
Any help would be appreciated.

If the version of Dreamweaver you have is CS3 (version 9)
then the "Scripts" folder under the root of your defined
Dreamweaver site should have a file called
"AC_RunActiveContent.js". Inside of the webpage containing your
newsbar, there should be the following inside of the
<head></head> tags:
<script src="../Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
There should also be a <script> tag inside the
<body></body> tags where the newsbar is located.

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