On Mac created swf file looses actions once opened on PC

The following issue is occuring:
We create an ebook with Indesign CS5. Then create an FLA file from it or export from pdf to swf straight via InDesign. We create swf in HTML and an Exe file. The following happens:
The Exe file is totally corrupted. Once opened on the PC either in Explorer or FireFox The file just goes wild no actions work at all. The HTML with the swf file works partly. The sound buttons don't work nor the external links in the files. This is a major isuue and we must find a solution for this.
Best Regrads!
Itale

So far I made a bit of progress and the following happens:
The original file is created in InDesign CS5 for Mac with animations, sounds and internal and external (Go To URL) links.
Once exported to SWF from Indesign and opened either with Flash player or Firefox on the Mac everything seems to be in order. Once I open the file on a browser on the PC s.a. Explorere or Firefox the external links won't work. All the rest works but the GoTo URL won't open the url's
I can't seem to find a reason for this. Are you familiar witrh this issue and if so do you have any suggestions that may solve this issue?
Kind Regards

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> Hello, I have Creative Suite 2, and have been asked by a
client (I am also
> a
> web developer, but mainly using ASP) to rescue their
website. Their
> designer
> has *lost* the original files which were written in
Dreamweaver, so he
> tells
> me, and I don't have a copy of Dreamweaver.
>
> AS I have CS2 - photoshop, illustrator, indesign,
GoDesign, is there a way
> I
> can get Dreamweaver, or another product cheaply, just so
I can help this
> one
> client out? I am not too sure I actually want to plunge
in and buy
> Dreamweaver,
> as I don't really know what I would use it for, and I
expect the learning
> curve
> to be as steep as the other Creative Suite products
were!
>
> If anyone could recommend/suggest a fix for me (all I
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> .swf
> files that are sitting on my client's website), for me
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> update his
> website, that would be great - I really don't want to
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