Transparent flash

I am trying to get a flash swf movie to show in dreamweaver
on a black background page, without showing the background of the
flash swf.
I tried mode=transparent in the parameters of the flash file.
However, the flash movie background won't go transparent. Is there
something else I can do?

it's not mode .. it's wmode="transparent".
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>I am trying to get a flash swf movie to show in
dreamweaver on a black
> background page, without showing the background of the
flash swf.
>
> I tried mode=transparent in the parameters of the flash
file. However, the
> flash movie background won't go transparent. Is there
something else I can
> do?
>

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