No images in Test Movie

?I am following the Studio 8 Cafe Townsend Tutorial.
I have copy and pasted the ActionScript code that makes the
slideshow animate. In the Test Movie, the title and descriptions
are working but no images - which I have checked are in the
cafe_townsend/images folder. I am stuck!

I am working through the Studio 8 handbook / pdf which I am
following to the letter. I am wondering if I made a mistake in
Fireworks (Tutorial 7 : Handling Photographs) althoug I have the
images in cafe_townsend/images. Any ideas?

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B

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I'm fairly new to adobe flash so I hope I use the right terms when asking this question. I am using AS2 in CS5.5.
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you're welcome.
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to be showing up on the adobe forums, I apologize for those that
see this twice.
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http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-878
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb407896
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-258991.html
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MGboat wrote:
> tried it - no luck. What a pain!
Just to clarify.
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