Problem Playing Multiple SWFs in Dreamweaver

so my problem is this......
In my flash Document I have One main SWF and two other SWF's
that load onto a different layer in the main SWF. Everything works
great in Flash and Dreamweaver when I preview in Browser but when i
upload to the web it doesn't function. Am i doing something wrong?
I made sure all files were in my root folder and that they were
uploaded to the server.

you probably didn't upload the "scripts" folder that DW
creates when you
insert a flash video (which is understandable, since the only
place
where that's mentioned is here, when people come to ask "why
won't my
flash video work?!" which happens probably daily....even i
did it!).
so check that. if that's not the problem, you should probably
post a link.
PCL_Jennifer wrote:
>
> so my problem is this......
> In my flash Document I have One main SWF and two other
SWF's that load onto a
> different layer in the main SWF. Everything works great
in Flash and
> Dreamweaver when I preview in Browser but when i upload
to the web it doesn't
> function. Am i doing something wrong? I made sure all
files were in my root
> folder and that they were uploaded to the server.
>
>

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