Flash Player Settings Pop up window

I just found the "Flash Player Settings" on a live SWF file.
A little pop up window that appears when you right click on an
online SWF file.
Can someone tell me what this function is for?
Security?
Cookies?
Browser Detection?
There seem to be controls for allowing someone to access
functions on the user's computer. Storage space, microphone,
camera. Is that correct?
The online documentation is a little vague on why it's there
and what it can actually do. Either that, or I'm not advanced
enough in Flash to understand what they are describing. (probably
the latter)
But my client discovered it in a small slide show I added to
their site. I had never seen it before, but I work primarily on a
Mac and the usual alternative to "right clicking" (control-click)
doesn't produce the little pop-up window. This seems to be a PC
only thing.
I don't think they had ever seen this function before either
because it alarmed them, and they want to know if I can turn it
off.
Is that possible? If so, how? Perhaps when it's being
published?
If not, is there anything I can say to assure them that it's
harmless - if it is, indeed harmless.
The slide show was created using Flash 8, and published to
detect Flash Player 7, with a "Flash Only" HTML template.
Thanks.

Flash Player Settings are for the user to control access of
Flash movies to the camera, "Flash Cookies" (storage), microphone
and global for where these are prompted or asked for access.
More details at
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html
They can use this to "turn off" any access to camera, Flash
cookies and microphone for all Flash movies including yours.
But they should think of it the same way as the Tools More
Options in IE -- where they control the player security requests.

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