First: Have you installed all the flash debug players you want?
google: download flash debug player and you will get a list of players (standalone, plug-in) at Adobe that you can download for your OS. also here
How to install into FDT:
After downloading and installing the latest debug flash player from Adobe, tell FDT where it is by opening FDT and change the Preferences at:
Preferences > FDT > Tools > Flash Player
Browse to the player in the Flash folder or wherever you have placed your Flash Player.app(mac)
Reset your Debug or Run settings so that they use Adobe Flash Player.
This should get you started playing the swf in the Adobe Player.
Now this will still result in sandbox problem if you want to load xml files, etc. locally.
If you want to fix this, look up this blog entry.
Thanks for all your tips. I want to set my run settings so that they use Adobe Flash Player as the default – but don’t know how/where. Presently I have to reset in ‘edit configurations every time… Can you tell me where I can do this?
If I understand you right then you need to go to FDT preferences and select the player in FDT/Tools you can download the debug flash player from adobe or have it on your system if you have Flash installed.