Ok, I am making headway. I found the post on the flash movie, Bill Kellum post #4735. I copied the code box to a text file and named it "swfobject.js" I then created a flash folder and placed the file inside the flash folder. The path is mystore/includes/sts_templates/freeoscomm_061/flash/swfobject.js.
I then copied this line of code to the sts_template.html "<script type="text/javascript" src="$templatedir/flash/swfobject.js"></script>".
I then pasted this code in the index.php_0.html file inside the freeoscomm_061 folder where I want the movie to play.
<td class="styleFlash">
<script type="text/javascript" src="$templatedir/flash/swfobject.js"></script>
<div id="flashcontent">This text is replaced by the Flash movie.
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("images/flash/your_flash_movie.swf", "movie", "763", "368", "8", "#ffffff");
so.write("flashcontent");
</script>
</td>
and finally I added a folder to my base images folder called flash and copied my flash movie to this folder..... I also renamed my flash movie to "your_flash_movie.swf" thinking that matched all the references.
Any ideas as to why all I see is the code text I added to my index.php_0.html file when I view the store in a browser?
Thanks for the help.
RJ