Missing Shockwave Decompression XTRA Macintosh

We had this error in our computer labs and found that only a
very few computers could successfully run the decompressor and none
others could.
On the working computers, we found that the Shockwave
installer copies the necessary XTRA files into
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Shockwave Player
11/Xtras/download where they are available only to the user account
that installed the plugin.
Copied the download folder to /Library/Application
Support/Adobe/Shockwave Player 11/Xtras/download and changed
ownership and permissions to match the other items in this folder.
Now any user of the computer can successfully run sites that
require the XTRAS.
Adobe: place these files at the system level, not the user
level.

I just tested it and it appears that the SWA Xtra is no longer part of the standard Shockwave 10 download (note that backwards compatibility is available only on the PC).
The problem is easily solved by adding the Xtra to your Movie Xtras. Do this:
Go to Modify --> Movie --> Xtras...
Click Add...
Select swadcmpr.x32 from the list
Click OK
Make sure Download if Needed is checked (uncheck and then recheck to make sure the Xtra is available)
Click OK
Publish your Movie
You may want to uninstall Shockwave and then let it auto-install to be absolutely certain that all required Xtras download correctly.
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