Using a .swf as an HTML layer in DW CS3

Hello,
I am using a .swf file as a background for my site and I can get the thing to work in Firefox and Safari on the Mac, but not in IE or Opera. It will play the .swf but in layers in on top of the content, not underneath. What is so different about how IE and Opera view the page that Firefox and Safari do not have. Please give a look at this link: http://www.allwickedthings.com/WT_index_test_1.html and let me know what you think. The .css files are posted on the root directory, just check the code to find the file names. I'm going to continue to experiment on the code and see if I can come up with something. Also this site displays in a different way on Netscape, it just leaves the movie out altogether.
Thanks,
Brett

First, run your page code through the on-line validation tools below and fix the reported errors.
HTML Validator - http://validator.w3.org
CSS Validator - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
FREE HTML & CSS Tutorials - http://w3schools.com/
You need a document type on your first line of HTML code. On DW menu hit FILE > Convert and select HTML 4.01 Transitional as your doc type. Without a doc type declaration, your pages will have undrepdictable cross browser results.
I've never needed to use an SWF as page background, so can't be much help. Maybe this thread from another forum will shed some light.
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=277976
Good luck,
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
www.alt-web.com/
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Revision: 11903
Revision: 11903
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-11-17 12:18:59 -0800 (Tue, 17 Nov 2009)
Log Message:
Fix SDK-22564: Debug player logs RSL sizes to console using main SWF name. Now, whenever the player loads a swf whose name is not known, because it was loaded via Loader.loadBytes() (which includes framework RSLs with digests), we display the name as "<unknown-N>", where "N" is a unique number to differentiate it from other unnamed swfs.
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