Flash PreLoader, MS Internet Explorer and swfobject?

Hi,
i've recently completed my first Flash-only website and all has gone well, I used to use Flash 2/3 ages ago so it's a welcome return to the current version for me.
Following a tutorial I built a simple percentage counting preloader.
I've published to Dreamweaver and in Google Chrome, all works perfectly but using IE, after all the usual warnings of Active Content Doom it just displays the "0%" - the first "frame" of the preloader and just freezes without moving on.
I've created an exact replica without the preloader and it then behaves fine for the rest of the site.
I've tried using the swfobject workaround i've found listed on the web but no joy, has anyone else had this annoying problem and is there a fix i can easily shoehorn into the HTML?
Please help, i've torn my hair out and am now moving onto the cat!
Cheers
Dan

Hi,
thanks for the reply.
I'm using the latest version of Flash (CS4 Pro) and using the publish settings, it does produce a lot of code doing this i noticed, I have also tried creating a basic html page directly in Dreamweaver and dropping the swf file in but this hasn't succeeded so far either, well, not as a basic, drop the flash file in and test with no other coding.
It's Internet Explorer 8.0.6
I'm not an experienced coder but i'm trying!
Thanks

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