.SWF Links work in Preview, but not in Browser

I'm sure this question has been asked plenty of times before, but i can't seem to find the answer. I have created an advertisement with Flash CS6, Actionsript 2.0 (because it has a pageflip). When i test the file on my computer I can click on a Button that I created and it pulls up a webpage. If I upload that same .SWF file to the webserver, the button doesn't work. I have adjusted the Publish settings so that Local playback security is set to "access network only", and still it does not work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
TK

Hello!
Thank you for checking my pages. I did clear the cache. Updated software. Repaired permissions. Rebooted (a million times). I also made sure I had no overlapping graphics. The problem appears to be on the pages linked from This Week (in the navigation bar), the pages are Probability and Measures of Central Tendency. The links are in Text Boxes with frames on them.
I tried viewing the pages using Safari on my iBook, on an iMac using Safari and on a PC using Firefox. I get the same links not working. It's just odd that they appear to function "normally" in iWeb. I was hoping I did something dumb that I could fix quickly. If not, I'm having to do the pages over.
Your suggestions are greatly appreciated.

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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 18:52:05 -0600
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Subject: flash work in preview but not in the browser!?
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