Problems playing FLVs through a Director shell

Hi All.
I wasn't sure whether this post belonged here or in 'basics',
so please
excuse me if I got it wrong!
We have built a Flash application, published for FP8 that is
wrapped in a
Director MX2004 (10.1.1) shell using the latest Flash Asset
Xtra.
Part of the functionality is that it dynamically loads and
plays back FLVs
using the NetStream Class. This all works very well until we
try to run the
app from CD. Then it works on some PCs and fails on others.
From what we can
see it is only failing on Windows XP machines with IE7
installed. Does
anyone have any further insight or information on this
please?
Many thanks,
Pete
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Last night I tried:
Run the app on my home PC which had IE6 installed under XP
Pro (worked
fine),
<gulp> installing IE7</gulp> - sadly, still
worked fine. This may be because
I have Director MX2004 installed too though.
Today we plan to re-run the test with a machine without
Director on it...
Anybody...?
Pete
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