Thanks for the link Felix, unfortunately I have Flash version 10+ and Java is enabled and still I get the message so am still no further on with this, I created the simpleviewer and am running it from the folder it created in, I cannot find a swfobject js in the folder nor do I know where to get it from so that maybe the cause but my simple understanding of these things is that when I ran the script to create the page it would have created and placed all the necessary files together so any advice on where or how to create this file if this is indeed the problem would be much appreciated.

Thanks for the info Felix, I have copied the swfobject.js file from the folder into the same directory as the index html created when I ran the script but this also does not fix the problem for me  :?