We have recently upgraded to the latest version of Flash 9.0.47. When viewing
pages that are directly linked to a .SWF file, the content is never displayed.
The IE status bar shows 'Downloading' and then 'Done' but only white space is
displayed. The file will not play when downloaded and opened through IE
manually either.

These files and sites still work with Flash 8, and with Flash 9 on Firefox.

I am able to view content that is embedded and the Adobe version test
(http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/) shows that it is installed.

Uninstall and reinstalling does not fix the issues nor does reverting back to
an older version of Flash on machines where this once worked.

I have been through the registry and as far as I can tell everything looks
fine. File associations and MIME settings were in order.


Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is a problem for quite a few
computers.

Thanks in advance,
Mike

Like I said in the previous post, if we try to open a naked swf file in IE it
does not play. However, when I enlose it in the proper tags the content is
displayed. Is this the way it's going to be from now on?

Here is an example I pulled from google that got it to work.

<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="300"

CODEBASE="http://active.macromedia.com/flash5/cabs/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0">
<PARAM NAME="MOVIE" VALUE="[%SWF FILE%]">
<PARAM NAME="PLAY" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="QUALITY" VALUE="best">
<PARAM NAME="LOOP" VALUE="true">
<EMBED SRC="[%SWF FILE%]" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="300" PLAY="true" LOOP="true"
QUALITY="best"

PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Vers
ion=ShockwaveFlash">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

Here are a couple of other things I have tried.
Registry Permissions are correct, I even gave users full control to
everything (on a test box)
Ran Flash Uninstaller, rebooted, installed package from adobe's site
Ran Flash Uninstaller, Rebooted, installed package from filehippo
unregistered & reregistered flash9d.ocx (regsvr32)
Tried both MSI & EXE installers from Adobe's Corporate download site
Changed IE security settings to lowest possible, everything was allowed
Allowed active content from My Computer (IE advanced settings)
Tested with different users, some admins some not
Tested with different versions of Windows XP (RTM, SP1, SP2)


None of those steps made any difference, and I have run out of ideas.