How can I get a Flash Slideshow to show in a browser?

Question

Running Mac Leopard, CS3. Created a simple Flash slideshow using the Modern Photo Slideshow Template. Placed into DW page as dynamic Flash element. Slideshow is 2 photos, and uses manual buttons only. When viewed in DW preview only the first frame shows and buttons don't work (when viewed in Flash preview, it works as expected). When viewed in browser, nothing shows (although the space is visible), unless I turn off Javascript in the browser; then the first frame shows but nothing else works.
I've tried this with 4 different browsers and DW, and all work the same way. What am I missing? Any help appreciated.
<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','<?php echo $row_rsDispatches2['Image']; ?>','width','450','height','350','src','photos/<?php echo $row_rsDispatches2['Image']; ?>','loop','false','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','play ','false','movie','photos/<?php echo $row_rsDispatches2['Image']; ?>' ); //end AC code
</script><noscript>
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="<?php echo $row_rsDispatches2['Image']; ?>" width="450" height="350">
  <param name="movie" value="photos/<?php echo $row_rsDispatches2['Image']; ?>" />
  <param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="PLAY" value="false" /><param name="LOOP" value="false" />
  <embed src="photos/<?php echo $row_rsDispatches2['Image']; ?>" width="450" height="350" loop="false" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" play="false"></embed>
</object>

Answer 1

If turning off the javascript makes the file at least appear, then that part of the problem likely means the AC_RunActiveContent.js file is not where it needs to be (if it is not coded directly into the html page).  In the head of your html page should be some indication of where that file needs to be (if it is not coded into the head section directly).  Turning off javascript is forcing the <noscript> section to load the file.
As for nothing working anyways when you view it in a web page, it may be because of the location of the file.  Your code indicates that the swf is located in a folder named photos.  If that swf loads the images dynamically from that same folder, then the problem arises when you load the swf into a file in a different folder.  Once the swf is planted into a file in a different folder, that folder becomes its frame of reference for loading content dynamically.  So if the swf originally loaded files using targets like...image1.jpg, image2.jpg, etc.... when it is placed into parent folder's file, it needs to target them as if it actually lives in that folder using... photos/image1.jpeg, photos/image2.jpg, etc...