It's IE-only behaviour as a result of changes Microsoft made several
years ago to their browser, regarding how Active Content (Flash, Quicktime
etc)
is handled, after losing a high profile court case.

http://blog.deconcept.com/2005/12/15...-flash-plugin/

Background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas

See also
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/activecontent/

If you're running Dreamweaver 8.0.2/CS3, the fix is already built into DW's
interface.

If not, try http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/

If you want to use Flash for navigation, consider this -

1. Some people don't have Flash installed - what do they do?
2. Search engines don't parse Flash links - your site will not be spidered
3. Screen assistive devices don't parse Flash links - what will those users
do?
4. DW cannot maintain links within a Flash movie, so if you move or rename
a linked file, your navigation will break - what will you do?

It's usually a very bad idea for these reasons...

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"South Beach" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:ftk3av$llk$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Without modification to the code...the component is there but it needs to
> be
> clicked on before I can navigate the site. Should Dreaweaver not know how
> to
> properly insert the code necessary allow the flash component to view
> properly?
> What am I missing?
>
> I have been able to find a work around to my problem but surely it is not
> what
> everyone out there is doing. If so...Dreamweaver or Flash has a serious
> bug!
>
> I created a site a while back and everthing worked fine. So I copied some
> code from that site to fix the new one. However even after copying the
> code I
> still have to modify it to make it work..(the modifcations are obvious.)
> This
> is suely not the way it is done all the time.
>
> I have three questions:
> 1. Why did everything work fine with the first site with no
> modifications?
> 2. Why do I have to copy the code to the other site after inserting the
> Flash
> component?
> 3. Why does dreamweaver not do it for me? (it did everything right the
> other
> time, but now it doen't even work in the previous site)
>
> I feel like I must have changed a setting somewwhere that I did not
> realize
> would effect this...Perhaps it is a Dreamwweaver thing.
>
> PLEASE !
>