Yep, I missed the MX reference

If you don't NEED any features of Flash MX you can switch back to Flash 5. If you NEED Flash MX, that limits your options to either a canned third party solution or a custom solution to get around the problem).

You can hire a programmer or build this EXE yourself with very little effort using Flash 5! You don't even need a copy of Flash 5 to do this. There are lots of free tools for Flash 5 that will give you the power you need. Here's how it might work...

Set Flash MX to publish a Flash 5 format SWF file then download a copy of FlashPla.exe and use that to create an EXE from your Flash 5 SWF. You can use the trick I described above to launch BAT file from this EXE and there's no problem calling a Flash 5 projector from a Flash MX projector!

If that sounds like too much work, here's a list of all the third party tools I know of that work with Flash MX.

SWF Studio http://www.northcode.com (my product)
Jugglor http://www.***********.com
LPFlashEX http://www.logicplus.com.hk
FlashAnts http://www.flashants.com
mProjector http://www.binarynoise.com
Flash 'N Pack http://www.flashnpack.com
Flash Studio http://www.multidmedia.com