Publish flash movie

I imported a mpeg movie into flash. When publishing, I
selected the ArticOverAll skin for movie controls. However when I
open the html page, no controls are visible, and right clicking
does not have show 100%.
I then tried publishing as window projector format only. I
created a web page with alink to this exe file which when opened
allowed me to right click on it, select 100% and controls were now
visible.
Why can't I get the flash/html publishing to show movie
controls?

Hi Sandy
Thank you for replying to my post. Im sorry for the late reply, as for some reason I didn't get any notification through email.
I tried to send my file to the email you have provided but for some reason I cannot send it, I get an automatic email saying it has failed to send the email :/. And as for my OS, its windows XP Professional 2001. Im not quite sure what Flash Version I have as the school has provided me with the software, im sorry.
Thanks again,
2011Ellie

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Hi Corona,
The screen size is whatever you captured or specified during
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> Is anyone aware of an xtra/extension for Flash that
would enable a flash movie
> to play files save in the mpeg-4 audio (mpa4, mp4)
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