Flash (swf) files won't play LOCALLY

For a couple years now I've been making Flash demos that are
embedded in an HTML page, for viewing online. The exact same pages
also work offline, ie. from a CD, USB drive, or another PC's hard
drive.
Suddenly, that just stopped working! I've done all the
troubleshooting and bug elimination I can do - there's no reason I
can come up with why the pages which preview fine off my authoring
PC and work perfectly when online, DON'T work anymore when the
exact same directory is taken to another PC.
All the referred links are in place, I can view the SWF from
USB when I drag & drop the file to a browser (so the plugins
are fine), I know the linking is correct, but when the HTML is
viewed locally from another machine, the embedded SWF just... never
appears. My old pages done the same way still work, but no new
pages do. I've compared code side-by-side and it all looks fine...
this page show the demo fine online...
www.invmed.info/test/all_mono/e_demo_clrcassette_mono.html
...but when you download this EXACT SAME directory to another
PC, the Flash doesn't appear. Can anyone please tell me why?? Here
is the simple directory of files:
www.invmed.info/test/test.zip

I FIGURED IT OUT! The AC_RunActiveContent.js script was not
being correctly pathed to by Dreamweaver, even when brand new pages
were made. For the script to be created the first time (and it
won't mention it again after that), you have to start a whole new
site. Once I did that, the clues finally started fitting together.
Found the code via search, fixed the offending path, and
voila.

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