Movies show locally but not on web

The symptom: I'm not able to get a swf to show or play in an
html page on a web server. The html page shows blank (though right
clicking confirms there's an invisible swf on the page).
I followed the well written Adobe Design Center tutorial at
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/tutorials/videoencoderwizard/
(explicitly, and dozens of times) With each iteration, I first
cleared out the files on my local drive and webserver and started
fresh.
The process followed was:
1. Created a fla in Flash 8
2. Imported a MWV movie to the stage, following the
parameters of the tutorial, and saved it as a FLA, FLV, swf skin,
and swf movie to a single folder on my PC.
3. Created a blank html page in Dreamweaver 8. Inserted a
Flash Video in the page. In the "Insert Flash Video" dialog box I
set the following:
-Video type = Progressive Download Video; URL pointed to FLV
file; Skin set to "Clear Skin 1"; Width 250
4. FTP'd one folder containing all files to the website:
html, flv file, swf video, Clear_Skin_1.swf,
ClearExternalPlayMute.swf (this is the control skin I set in Flash,
but it wasn't available in the dropdown of the "Insert Flash Video"
dialog box in Dreamweaver so I picked Clear_Skin_1.swf),
5. called up the url in several browsers: IE 6.0.2, IE 7,
Firefox 2.0 - all with same result: blank white screen.
Any ideas/suggestions will be much appreciated by me - and
probably others here too. Tell me I'm not the only one experiencing
this!
Best,
Steve

Was able to resolve this with the help of Adobe Technical
Support. For those coming after me, here's the Fix:
This issue is caused by a MIME setting in Windows 2003 web
server.
Reason:
With IIS 6.0, Microsoft changed the way streaming media is
handled. Previous versions of IIS did not require any modification
to stream Flash Video. Microsoft IIS 6.0, the default web server
that ships with Windows 2003, requires a MIME type to recognize
that FLV files are streamed media.
Solution can be found here:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_19439
Note: I tested my video on a Linux server and it worked fine:
http://homegiftblog.com/testimonials/Mark5.html

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