HTML and Flash

i have been searching for help on this issue and cant seem to find an answer. i am sure the issue is my lack of understanding.
Basically, i have a flash (CS3) program (lobby.fla) that contains a button to load another flash file (join.swf). i published the
lobby.fla program and created the lobby.html program and the AC_RunActiveContent.js. All program files are in the same directory.
if i run lobby.fla from Flash CS3 all works as i would expect. when i click on the join button, the join.swf is loaded.
if i run the lobby.html program from Dreamweaver, the join button does nothing (not even a trace statement is excuted).
Eventually I would like to pass parameters from the lobby program to the join program but i cant get the button to work.
if i just load the htl program in the browser this works. but when i run the lobby.html program from within dreamweaver the botton does
nothing. what am i missing in the dreamweaver side of this?
my environment is Windows XP Home, php-mysql, Dreamweaver and Flash CS3.
thanks for any help
teremoto

at this stage i would take a guess. i am at a loss.
from my understanding i have published the lobby.fla and i have gotten a lobby.swf, lobby.html and an AC_RunActiveContent.js files.
i have looked at the lobby.html and it seems to match with what i can find on the web searching forums for help and examples.
so i dont think it is that but it may be i need to add something but i am not sure. the AC_RunActiveContent.js file seems to be rather generic and
it does not look like something i should or would modify.
why would this work fine if i run this program outside of dreamweaver?
i thought it would be best to use html-ajax-php-mysql to handle logins and then let flash be the main program that the user will use.
maybe i am wrong in my design thinking. What i am trying to accomplish is to have a page presented (with links to join specific rooms).
the rooms will be a flash program (there is no required interaction between users who join the room...but i will need to pass a few pieces of
data back to the main calling program where i will need to update my database).
should my design be more where all links/buttons needed to move the user to the flash programs i want them to interact with be done outside
of flash? i was hoping to use flash to just pass the required parameters back to the lobby.html program and then process that data (update
my databases) . it just seemed easier to have a main driver program (my lobby flash program) to handle all the work as opposed to a whole bunch
of html pages.
i appreciate your opinion on this....i feel i maybe moving in the wrong direction in my development.
thanks
teremoto

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