No Flash Video Playback on Mac Pro with Leopard

I recently purchased a Mac Pro with Leopard, Final Cut Studio
2, and Adobe Production Premium suite. I got everything setup
yesterday, and I exported a Quicktime reference file from Final
Cut, and brought it into Flash CS3 Media Encoder. The file seemed
to encode fine, but when I try to open it, it shows that the Flash
Player opens, but the video never actually opens. I also tired to
import the FLV file into Flash Pro, and it acts as though it
imports, but it does let me preview it. The ONLY thing that I think
could have caused a problem is that I also have Sorenson Squeeze
installed, which has its own On2 VP6 encoder. Again, this may have
nothing to do with it since I copied the file to another Mac
machine that did not have Sorenson on it, and downloaded the
standalone Flash Player, and it acted the same. Any ideas on why
FLV files would not play back would be greatly appreciated. I have
ALL updates installed for OS X Leopard, as well as the CS3
collection. Thanks in advance.

I really appreciate your help with this. As simple as it
sounds, I was really wrapped up in getting a second HD editing
suite up and running, and had not done my homework. Prior to your
post, I tried to play 5 different FLV files on 3 machines. None of
them played until I downloaded a great FLV player. Once I installed
the FLV player, all of the videos played flawlessly. Thanks
again!

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