Opening .fla files

Hi.  I have what appears to be a common problem.  I downloaded the trial version of CS5 but it won't open my .fla file.  Is there something basic I'm doing wrong?
On my website, I have an animation that says "Online ordering coming soon."  Well it's almost here and I need to remove that part about coming soon.  I couldn't seem to upload the .fla file here, but it is located at www.gotocuttingboard.com if it matters.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Dan

1. always create a backup of files before editing them if you're concerned about screwing things up (and it's prudent to always be concerned about screwing things up).
2. use:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/main.dwt" codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" -->
<head>
    <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" /><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="doctitle" -->
    <title>Cutting Board</title>
    <!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
    <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="head" -->
    <style type="text/css"><!--
table#nav {
    border-bottom-width: 1px;
    border-bottom-style: solid;
    border-bottom-color: #FFFFFF;
-->
    </style>
    <script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function MM_openBrWindow(theURL,winName,features) { //v2.0
  window.open(theURL,winName,features);
//-->
</script><script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script><!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
</head>
<body>
<div class="wrapper"><a href="index.html"><img border="0" height="185" src="images/cb_01.jpg" width="990" /></a>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="nav" width="100%">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td><a href="index.html"><img border="0" height="76" src="images/navMenu/images/navMenu.jpg" width="92" /></a></td>
            <td><a href="http://www.orderstart.com/gotocuttingboard"><img border="0" height="76" src="images/navMenu/images/navMenu-02.jpg" width="166" /></a></td>
            <td><a href="menu.html"><img border="0" height="76" src="images/navMenu/images/navMenu-03.jpg" width="86" /></a></td>
            <td><a href="catering-menu.html"><img border="0" height="76" src="images/navMenu/images/navMenu-04.jpg" width="142" /></a></td>
            <td><a href="about-us.html"><img border="0" height="76" src="images/navMenu/images/navMenu-05.jpg" width="104" /></a></td>
            <td><a href="daily/daily.doc"><img border="0" height="76" src="images/navMenu/images/navMenu-06.jpg" width="142" /></a></td>
            <td><a href="coming_soon.html"><img border="0" height="76" src="images/navMenu/images/navMenu-07.jpg" width="110" /></a></td>
            <td><a href="http://www.orderstart.com/gotocuttingboard"><img border="0" height="76" src="images/navMenu/images/navMenu-02.jpg" width="166" /></a></td>
            <!--  <td><a href="coupons/coupon.html"><img src="images/navMenu/images/navMenu-08.jpg" width="148" height="76" border="0" /></a></td> --><!-- temporarily suspend special offers -->
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="content" -->
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>
            <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="659" height="268" id="flash_01" align="middle">
                <param name="movie" value="flash_01.swf" />
                <param name="quality" value="high" />
                <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
                <param name="play" value="true" />
                <param name="loop" value="true" />
                <param name="wmode" value="window" />
                <param name="scale" value="showall" />
                <param name="menu" value="true" />
                <param name="devicefont" value="false" />
                <param name="salign" value="" />
                <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
                <!--[if !IE]>-->
                <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="flash_01.swf" width="659" height="268">
                    <param name="movie" value="flash_01.swf" />
                    <param name="quality" value="high" />
                    <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
                    <param name="play" value="true" />
                    <param name="loop" value="true" />
                    <param name="wmode" value="window" />
                    <param name="scale" value="showall" />
                    <param name="menu" value="true" />
                    <param name="devicefont" value="false" />
                    <param name="salign" value="" />
                    <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
                <!--<![endif]-->
                    <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash">
                        <img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" />
                    </a>
                <!--[if !IE]>-->
                </object>
                <!--<![endif]-->
            </object>
</td>
            <td><img height="268" onclick="MM_openBrWindow('testimonials.html','','scrollbars=yes,width =400,height=400')" src="images/cb_10.jpg" width="331" /></td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td><a href="catering-menu.html"><img border="0" height="314" src="images/cb_11.jpg" width="332" /></a></td>
            <td><a href="http://www.orderstart.com/gotocuttingboard"><img border="0" height="314" src="images/cb_12.jpg" width="317" /></a></td>
            <td><a href="coming_soon.html"><img border="0" height="314" src="images/cb_13.jpg" width="341" /></a></td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
<div class="footer">1275 Bloomfield Ave &bull; Fairfield, NJ 07004 &bull; Call Us: 973-244-5771 &bull; Fax Us: 973-244-5772<br />
Copyright 2009. The Cutting Board Deli &amp; Grill.</div>
</div>
</body>
<!-- InstanceEnd --></html>

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