Swf files wrongly linked in Mac info 'Open With'

Together with others I have had a serious problem opening swf files with Flash Player. I hope this will help some of you and challenge Adobe to get their act together since this ought not so to be.
1. Background: As you may know, Flash Player 10 is not a stand along but only for web use (a plug in). One must keep or download the latest Flash Player 9 in order to play stand along swf docs. Had Adobe explained this clearly at the get-go it would have saved much frustration.
2. Together with others, some very strange things have happened to what was an automatic double-click=open option. In my Mac Info (on file) dialogue box many of my older swf files appear as programs with which I can open any swf doc. In fact, *all* of my hundreds of stand alone swf files are now set to open with some other swf doc (!) meaning that that doc appears and not the doc I am opening. It looks like the swf file has been recognized as a program rather than a simple swf file.
3. After much frustration, I tried to set Flash Player 9 in the Mac 'Info' dialogue box and then choose 'Change All,' but this is not allowed. It keeps wanting to open my swf with some other swf doc listed in the Info. I then changed each doc separately via the Mac Info dialogue box. This finally stuck ... but when I tried to Change All again with a doc set to open with Flash Player 9, everything returned set to open with some random swf file listed in the 'Open with' dialogue box (and these swf files should not be listed there as programs).
4. This entire confusion makes me think that the Adobe/Apple conflict is somehow coming into play here. Who is to blame I do not know, but I wish Adobe would address this since we how have used Flash to create very complex and beautiful swf docs for the classroom now have to open each doc by dragging it to the Flash Player in the dock, and this means that we must explain this to any user.
5. Summary: For whatever reason 'Open With' is confused, I should be able to correct the problem with choosing Flash Player 9 and then click 'Change All.' Can anyone tell me what is going on and how to solve this?
PS: This is happening to others whose Macs are totally separate from mine.

Hi seaslug and welcome to our community
I would think you could test the connectivity by playing them
locally to ensure they work. If the files all work fine on your
local PC, try copying them to a web server that isn't using SSL. If
they work fine there, then try the SSL. Basically, you want to pare
away the layers in order to see where things fall apart.
You may also wish to double check to ensure that all the
necessary files exist in the output folder. For example, maybe
someone forgot to include the associated HTM files. Things like
that.
Hopefully something here was helpful... Rick

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