Play SWF/F4V Movie Not Working

I am stumped when trying to play a SWF file (F4V) on an html or asp page. I have uploaded the files to our test server as well as production. The page (ASP or HTML) loads and shows the placeholder along with the movie image and the play button. However, nothing happens when I click play. Nothing at all. The movie should start on load. You actually see the pause button at this point.
The movie is a company video saved down from DVD to F4V format. I can use the File:// command and point the network path and the movie plays just fine in Safari and FireFox (assuming HTML here). However it does not play in IE8 using the File:// command line. Using the URL path the movie does not play at all in any browser. I can right click on the SWF file in Windows Explorer and it plays fine.
From this I assume my movie works, and can be played from the HTML file (as long as I use the File:\\ path, but not the URL.
My file structure (relative path) looks like this:
/galleries/All_I_Want_For_Christmas
     All_I_Want_For_Christmas_Video.swf
     AuthoredContent.xml   (has relative paths to the sources folder content)
     Movie_2010_christmas.asp
     Movie_2010_christmas.html
     /Sources
          PGC_Dpgc Ba_1.png
          PGC_Dpgc Bn_1.jpg
          PGC_Dpgc Bs_1.jpg
          PGC_Dpgc_1.jpg
          PGC_Epgc_entryPoint_Ebp_1.f4v
My paths appear correct in my html/asp code and my object looks like this:
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="640" height="480" title="All I Want For Christmas">
          <param name="movie" value="galleries/All_I_Want_For_Christmas/All_I_Want_For_Christmas_Video.swf" />
          <param name="quality" value="high" />
          <param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
          <embed src="galleries/All_I_Want_For_Christmas/All_I_Want_For_Christmas_Video.swf" quality="high" wmode="opaque" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="480"></embed>
</object>
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

hi,
yes to both.
i found out that i have downloader eccellorator plus
installed, this was causing the download box to appear.
how am i able to find out if they have this and stop it from
being used?
or is there another way to have the video file play without
having this happen to other visitors who may not have turned off
their downloader program.
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