SWF Won't PLAY!!!!

I'm fed up at this point. I have inserted a SWF that I created using e-Learning Brothers Flash interaction. The SWF plays fine outside of Captivate, but when I insert it into a slide, it does not play. However, if I go past the slide and then click the rewind, the interaction plays as expected. What am I doing wrong?

Your object tag (which I.E uses) is for embedding Director
content, not
Flash:
<object
classid="clsid:166B1BCA-3F9C-11CF-8075-444553540000"
codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/director/sw.cab#
version=8,5,0,0" width="200" height="100">
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