IPA File On iPhone

Hi All,
I have been struggling with this all day and am hitting my head against a brick wall. I am a registered iPhone developer.
My software is on Windows and my app development stuff is on my Mac.
I created an iPhone project in Flash Pro CS5 (Windows machine running XP), used the Keychain utility to create a p12 from my developer cert on my Mac along with a provisioning file.
I click Publish, this creates the Flash IPA file.Now what can I do with this?
I copy it to my Mac, can see it in iTunes. When I try to copy it to my iPod I get "The app was not installed on the iPhone <name> because the signer was not valid"
I cannot seem to do anything with the file in Xcode, perhaps this is not possible?
I have been following instructions here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/iphone/WS144092a96ffef7cc-371badff126abc17b1f-7fff.html
Open the Keychain Access application (in the Applications/Utilities folder).
If you have not already added the certificate to Keychain, select File > Import. Then navigate to the certificate file (the .cer file) you obtained from Apple.
Select the Keys category in Keychain Access.
Select the private key associated with your iPhone Development Certificate.
The private key is identified by the iPhone Developer: <First Name> <Last Name> public certificate that is paired with it.
Select File > Export Items.
Save your key in the Personal Information Exchange (.p12) file format.
You will be prompted to create a password that is used when you attempt to import this key on another computer.
Convert an Apple developer certificate to a P12 file on Windows
To develop iPhone applications using Flash CS5, you must use a P12 certificate file. You generate this certificate based on the Apple iPhone developer certificate file you receive from Apple.
Convert the developer certificate file you receive from Apple into a PEM certificate file. Run the following command-line statement from the OpenSSL bin directory:
openssl x509 -in developer_identity.cer -inform DER -out developer_identity.pem -outform PEM
If you are using the private key from the keychain on a Mac computer, convert it into a PEM key:
openssl pkcs12 -nocerts -in mykey.p12 -out mykey.pem
You can now generate a valid P12 file, based on the key and the PEM version of the iPhone developer certificate:
openssl pkcs12 -export -inkey mykey.key -in developer_identity.pem -out iphone_dev.p12
If you are using a key from the Mac OS keychain, use the PEM version you generated in the previous step. Otherwise, use the OpenSSL key you generated earlier (on Windows).
Do I have to install OpenSSL to do this? I have installed OpenSSL and I try the commands above and am receiving an error.
Are these the steps I need to follow to install my IPA on a device or am I looking in the wrong place? Is there no other way to do this?

Tim thanks for that, it was going great until about 10 mins into the video where you have to upload your file to Apple to create a developer certificate.
I can't do that as I have a certificate already so I tried the process here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/iphone/WS144092a96ffef7cc-371badff126abc17b1f-7fff.html
Which is:
Convert the iPhone developer certificate to a P12 file on Mac OS
Once you have downloaded the Apple iPhone certificate from Apple, export it to the P12 certificate format. To do this on Mac® OS:
Open the Keychain Access application (in the Applications/Utilities folder).
If you have not already added the certificate to Keychain, select File > Import. Then navigate to the certificate file (the .cer file) you obtained from Apple.
Select the Keys category in Keychain Access.
Select the private key associated with your iPhone Development Certificate.
The private key is identified by the iPhone Developer: <First Name> <Last Name> public certificate that is paired with it.
Select File > Export Items.
Save your key in the Personal Information Exchange (.p12) file format.
You will be prompted to create a password that is used when you attempt to import this key on another computer.
So I use the certificate to create my app in Flash and import it to iTunes (all goes fine). When I go to install it on the device, I get the error message "The app....not installed...because the signer is not valid".
One thing I am trying to work out, if I do the process above do I need to use OpenSSL to create a cert signing request or does the Mac developer cert in .p12 form do it all?
Any other recommendations?

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