OK I found a tutorial on how to upload with flash 8, I downloaded the php and fla. I tried it a couple days ago with no problems it worked great. so I put the file away and sat on it tell I needed to use it again. I re uploaded the file again to my host and now I get a http error 406. So I remade the swf and php from scratch to make sure it was ok. here is the php and action script I used

Code:
//swf action script
//Allow this domain
System.security.allowDomain("http://mermadebaubles.com")
import flash.net.FileReference;
// The listener object listens for FileReference events.
var listener:Object = new Object();

// When the user selects a file, the onSelect() method is called, and
// passed a reference to the FileReference object.
listener.onSelect = function(selectedFile:FileReference):Void {
  //clean statusArea and details area
  statusArea.text = details.text = ""
  // Flash is attempting to upload the image.
  statusArea.text += "Attempting to upload " + selectedFile.name + "\n";
  // Upload the file to the PHP script on the server.
  selectedFile.upload("upload.php");
};

// the file is starting to upload.
listener.onOpen = function(selectedFile:FileReference):Void {
  statusArea.text += "Uploading " + selectedFile.name + "\n";
};
//Possible file upload errors
listener.onHTTPError = function(file:FileReference, httpError:Number):Void {
	imagePane.contentPath = "error";
	imagePane.content.errorMSG.text = "HTTPError number: "+httpError +"\nFile: "+ file.name;
}

listener.onIOError = function(file:FileReference):Void {
	imagePane.contentPath = "error";
	imagePane.content.errorMSG.text = "IOError: "+ file.name;
}

listener.onSecurityError = function(file:FileReference, errorString:String):Void {
	imagePane.contentPath = "error";
	imagePane.content.errorMSG.text = "SecurityError: "+SecurityError+"\nFile: "+ file.name;	
}

// the file has uploaded
listener.onComplete = function(selectedFile:FileReference):Void {
  // Notify the user that Flash is starting to download the image.
  statusArea.text += "Upload finished.\nNow downloading " + selectedFile.name + " to player\n";
  //Show file details
  details.text = ""
  for(i in selectedFile) details.text +="<b>"+i+":</b> "+selectedFile[i]+"\n"
  // Call the custom downloadImage() function.
  downloadImage(selectedFile.name);
};

var imageFile:FileReference = new FileReference();
imageFile.addListener(listener);

uploadBtn.onPress = uploadImage;
imagePane.addEventListener("complete", imageDownloaded);

// Call the uploadImage() function, opens a file browser dialog.
function uploadImage(event:Object):Void {
  imageFile.browse([{description: "Image Files", extension: "*.jpg;*.gif;*.png"}]);
}

// If the image does not download, the event object's total property
// will equal -1. In that case, display am error message
function imageDownloaded(event:Object):Void {
  if(event.total == -1) {
    imagePane.contentPath = "error";	
  }
}

// show uploaded image in scrollPane
function downloadImage(file:Object):Void {
  imagePane.contentPath =  "./files/" + file;
}

stop()
PHP Code:
<?php
//create the directory if doesn't exists (should have write permissons)
if(!is_dir("./files/")) mkdir("./files/", 0755); 
//move the uploaded file
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'], "./files/".$_FILES['Filedata']['name']);
?>
still haveing problems. any one know why some one gets a 406 error?