Flash swf looks tiny in IE

Hello,
I inserted my Flash movie/website into an html using dreamweaver and uploaded to the site's directory. The movie plays fine in Firefox but in IE it's a tiny version of itself. I uploaded the scripts to the directory as well, I'm not sure why it's doing this.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Thanks for your help, I did a little more research and found out that it was most likely because I was checking the site on IE9, which has compatibility issues with the latest Flash player. I couldn't find anything that stated it was a resolved issue with Adobe or with IE9 - so for the time being I guess people will just be forced to see the tiny flash movie in IE9 - or switch to another browser... what a bummer.

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