I'm trying to get some SWFs exported from Flash Pro 8.0 to play inside a
PowerPoint 2003 presentation. I've done this before on other Windows XP
systems, but this is a new system for me to use, actually running XP via
Parallels on a MacBook (sweet!).

Had not done this in a while, so I looked up the steps here...
[url]http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/assistance/HA010348071033.aspx[/url]

To recount some key steps, in PowerPoint's Control Toolbox, I clicked More
Controls (the button with the hammer and wrench icon) and then from the
dropdown list, I scrolled down and clicked "Shockwave Flash Object", and
dragged it on the slide to draw the control. I entered the full path to the SWF
in the Control's Properties window, set play=true, etc.

For some reason, my SWF wouldn't play, so I went into debug mode.

This is where I think things when from bad to worse. I decided to update my
Flash Player. I downloaded from the Adobe site and ran the Flash 9 deinstaller
first (which probably removed the "Shockwave Flash Object" DLL that PowerPoint
had been accessing. Then I ran the Flash 9 Player installer.

Unfortunately, PowerPoint no longer sees any kind of "Shockwave Flash Object"
DLL in the Control Toolbox's More Controls dropdown list... it's no longer in
the list. Gone!

I tried repairing Office (didn't do a full reinstall yet), but that didn't fix
it. Also tried running the Flash 9 Player installer again. No luck with that
either.

I'm not too handy with these DLL and registry issues. Can someone please
advise me?

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Also, maybe there is an issue for Adobe to look at with that deinstaller
utility...