Making Flash Dynamic Playlist in Dreamweaver

Hi, got overly ambitious late last night and tried to make a
video playlist based on Lisa Larson Kelley's tutorial
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_playlist.html.
I managed to get the tile list set up and functioning, but, the
video player doesn't seem to "see" the video files, just the
thumbnails in the tile list. The URL for the test page is at
http://www.vegascanine.com/VideoPlaylist.html.
I've been comparing my files to her tutorial files and I wonder if
there's something absurdly simple that I'm missing due to lack of
sleep! I would appreciate any feedback. Thanks so much!

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> How do I do this?
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> I basically want an end user to be able to click on the
flash I made and
> take them to a new URL/page.

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news:[email protected]...
sorry but i don't understand what you mean....i debug the
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2006-05-15 20:48:19 3848 (s)2641173 Communication Components
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