Flash menu linking question?

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Hello,

Someone else built this site a long time ago and I am cleaning it up. I have a flash menu (with html backup) that is embedded on each page. I put this menu into a php include. All good! But this morning I realized that each page has a different .swf called in the menu (e.g. home.swf, learning.swf, etc). All the links seem to still work fine however. So it seems to be the same menu on each page. I dont know enough about flash (nor have a flash editor to see) to know whats going on in the swf exactly. So why would the original web dev have a seperate swf for each page? Do I need each one? So do I need to take it out of the include? Or can I just use one single swf file for the menu? Thanks!

Example of my include…

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="250" height="400">
			<param name="movie" value="aboutus.swf">
			<param name="wmode" value="opaque">
			<!--[if !IE]>-->
			<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="aboutus.swf" width="250" height="400">
			<param name="wmode" value="opaque">
			<!--<![endif]-->
			alt content
			<!--[if !IE]>-->
			</object>
			<!--<![endif]-->
			</object>
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It may be that there were individual separate swfs to show a different highlighted current page? If it works and there’s no obvious visual difference then using a single swf would seem fine.

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Ewww good thinking! Or rather bad thinking on my part. I bet that’s it. So there is no way to have that in an include then is there? Or is there some special PHP parameter I can add to the include?

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