Help a Newbie - Need to Embed swfs into main swf

I have made a MAIN SWF in which if you click one button, it
loads one SWF, if you click another button, it loads another SWF.
The file works perfectly when I test the MAIN SWF...until I
relocate that MAIN SWF to another file, then it doesn't load the
internal SWFS. How do I publish the MAIN SWF with the other two
SWFS embedded? So that my client only has to upload one single SWF
file and not host the internal ones somewhere?
Hope this makes sense...Flash is completely foreign to me, so
be gentle. Thanks!

Treat Flash as any other content and place it within its own
containing div. Position the div in the normal flow of the document
allowing the div to 'stack' with the other divs above and below it.
If you want to place the Flash such that it 'covers' existing
content you can use CSS positioning techniques. Options include
absolute positioning the containing div with the Flash swf within
it (this removes the div from the normal flow of the document) and
placing it over the existing content. Us position: absolute; and
top and left, with px values to place the div where you need it.
You can find tutorials on absolute positioning in the developer
center or www.communitymx.com
You can use the float property and negative margins to pull
containing divs (or other elements) around the document, too.
Experimenting with floats can be fun but you need to read up on
their specific behavior as you can end up pulling your hair out.
Again, there are plenty of CSS tutorials on positioning and a
Google search should throw-up some options.
Outside of CSS you can use DOM Scripting and JavaScript to
also position and hide various content depending on your
requirements. If you get stuck come back on this forum and ask for
more help but provide specific code to help us.

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sorry for being such an airhead
thanks for helping me out =)
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 10:25:09 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: load AS2 swf into AS3 swf problem
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eLi The Girl wrote:
>
> Trying to put up a website in tables &
cells....can't seem to get answers to a
> couple of Q's.
> Any experts out there that could offer insight would be
much appreciated!
> Here's the sitch :
> Down the left side of my page is a list of services, I
want a mouseover action
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right of the services
> list to change to an explanation of that service, and to
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> the right of that text (in yet another cell) to a
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