SWF embedded for Auto-play intro

Our 3d designer has made us some neat intros which I can't
seem to get to play on the live server.
I have tried as .flv and .swf with various options like
relative/absolute url, inserting a black slide at start, put the
.swf on another server, etc.
Nothing works on the live server. I haven't asked the server
guys yet, but seems like such an obvious bug must actually be
related to our server?
Any help greatly appreciated.
thanks!
Jon

This seems to be a huge issue, and in fact is the reason I am on this board poking around
There are a few threads, but it seems swf is not a search term the forums allow.
It seems that every few days it comes up again in spades, because the issue is then not top-posted any longer.
Anyway, there are two answers... one is the the 'imported swf' is not actually embedded until load - otherwise it sits in your server.
(I think but anyway)
So the swf has to be in there, and also the swf has to be the right type of object.
I'm afraid catalyst is still a bit buggy around this issue, has to be one of the most important things to change.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3226830#3226830
Also:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2807348#2807348
oh and you have to actually 'play' the swf file, it doesn't happen on it's on
Do these help?  I'm having the same issues...
Hard to believe this is not in the help files - or at least very clearly that I could find, seems a rather obvious application of Catalyst.

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