Quote Originally Posted by phantomflanflinger
asheep was right.

I tried about twenty links to existant files and five to nonexistant, makes no difference.

Firefox 1.06 (on this PC) misinterprets the command Flash Player sends to it. The reason I asked is a client wants a standalone Flash job I have to deliver as a swf and as a projector.

No matter what the filename, Firefox simply adds 'work' to the I'm feeling lucky URL, http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I...oe=UTF-8&q=
Although, it does try to go to www.filename.whatever if I put the swf and the target file in C:\

try this: instead of getURL, load the pic inside a movieclip (as long as it is non progressive it should work) does it display? if not, then the problem is the paths, if it does display, then we have another type of problem.