Flash "sees" paths relatively to the page it is on.

So while it's location might be /Portals/0, it uses the path in the address bar (of the page).

On the home page that is you domainname, but on subpages it will use

www.mysite.com/about/contact/tabid/122/default.aspx, while these "folders" do not exist.

So if you reference test.xml it will look for:

www.mysite.com/about/contact/tabid/122/test.xml

This means you will have pass the actual path to the SWF somehow.

You can pass it to the flash movie (as a variable) from a module, there are some free Flash mosules, that allow you to pass a variable to the flash movie.

I mostly use the one from http://www.dignuke.com/ for this

Timo has the diagnosis and solution -- this will definitely work. The parameter is called "flashvars". I'm working on a web site at www.tsmaa-pa.com/new (note in a few weeks the /new will be /cms). The ICON buttons and the text buttons int he flash are driven by an XML file.

Here is what our HTML code looks like:

<object id="myFlashContent" width="930" height="500" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000">
      <param name="movie" value="/new/portals/0/tsmaa/flash/Karate9L.swf" />
      <param name="flashvars" value="urlForXML=/new/Portals/0/tsmaa/Flash/karate.xml" />
      <!--[if !IE]>-->
      <object width="930" height="500" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="/new/portals/0/tsmaa/flash/Karate9L.swf">
         <param name="flashvars" value="urlForXML=/new/Portals/0/tsmaa/Flash/karate.xml" />
      <!--<![endif]-->
            <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">
                <img alt="Get Adobe Flash player" src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" />
            </a>
      <!--[if !IE]>-->
      </object>
      <!--<![endif]-->
</object>