.flv file corruption on server?

i'm trying to use progressive download to play an .flv file
on an html page. i'm using flash and dreamweaver 8, and when i
insert the .flv and open the html file locally with a browser, the
video plays just fine.
however, when i upload the files (along with the flv_player
and skin .swfs) to a server, there is nothing there. any ideas what
might be causing this?
i'm using an intel macbook pro and uploading to a linux
server. i've also tried it on a unix server.
i've run into cases in the past where i've tried to transfer
files from my mac to a server or email a file to someone else, and
the file won't work, i guess it gets corrupted in the transfer. in
those cases, i just enclosed the files into a .zip folder and
transferred that, and then when the user on the other end unzips
it, the files are fine.
however, this doesn't seem like a practical solution for this
particular problem, assuming that's even the case.
any ideas, or anyone else encounter this out there? i saw
another post with a similar problem, but no one seems to have
replied to it yet. does that mean nobody knows how to address
this?

URL?
It is one of two things...
#1 - Mime type for FLV on server is not set:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_19439
#2 - Path to FLV is incorrectly pointing at your local
machine instead of using a relative path.

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