Tigga - I've tried that and it doesn't work. Could this be because its in the News Section which is essentially pulled from the news forum? Even if this is the case, I've turned on HTML codes for that forum. It parses other codes, like < a href=, <H2> etc. etc. but no joy with flash.
This looks like an issue with vB, because if I turn on HTML for any forum, it doesn't work there either. I have a hack installed that shows flash files if they are attached and that works fine, so fundamentally flash does show.
If you look quickly at the post in the forum where I put all the flash code, it shows a little white box with a dot in it, indicating a missing graphic or something. There is nothing wrong with the flash code as I've tried calling it on another webpage outside the forum and it works fine.
Not sure where to look now

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P.S. This is the code I was using (I've tried using different relative and absolute paths):
Code:
<object classid="clsid: D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" width="406" height="197">
<param name=movie value="/forum/launch/test.swf">
<param name=quality value=high>
<embed src="/forum/launch/test.swf" quality=high pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="406" height="197">
</embed>
</object>