Installing Flex SDK

Hello All,
Please excuse my ignorance; however, I am new to development.
After talking to a friend I decided to have a go at building flash into my websites. As a skint student I opted to download the Flex SDK open source package.
I have downloaded FlexSDK from the Adobe site, unzipped the folder and saved it to my c:programes folder. When I looked for an execuatble file to launch the application - nothing. I continued to research which led me to install the plugins from the runtime folder after first unistalling my current version of flash.
As there was no joy launching an application I did further research into the open source Flex SDK; pretty much every review mentions developing within an IDE /your chosen IDE.
Please help:
- What am I missing please?
- How do I get to work with flash using Flex SDK?
- How do I unintall Flex and the plugins and get back to how I was, as I cannot find any uninstall information? (without restoring windows as I have just installed a load of new software)
There must be a way to make use of these files in an IDE; I must be launching it wrongly.
Thanks!

Hey, give this a try. I successfully installed "Flex Builder"
on Slackware Linux 11 (2.6.15 kernel).
http://blog.davr.org/2007/04/22/flex-builder-201-under-linux/

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Sorry, if I went a little overboard. After re-reading your post, perhaps I should back up a little.
First, there are little things that Flash Builder (FB) will complain about. Having extra import statements in your code doesn't hurt anything. If I'm trying different solutions and then commenting out the code, the import statements will hang around, FB will complain, but just ignore it. If you see a little icon on the left edge of your code editor and its a red circle with an X in it, then that is something that will have to be fixed.
When you create an app in FB or Flash you can choose to create a web app which means it will run in a browser window. The project can optionally create an HTML wrapper, or web page that will load your app. In Flash Pro you can choose File->Publish Settings and there will be a checkbox on the left to publish a HTML wrapper. In FB, you can right click your project in the Package Explorer, select Properties at the bottom, select the ActionScript Compiler, and down at the bottom there will be a checkbox to create a HTML wrapper.
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http://helpx.adobe.com/flash.html
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http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-flash-professional-cs5/
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