HELP!! FLash Movie Problem

Hi there folks.
New toWP…great piece of work.
Although slight problem inserting a flash movie into the Default template. Have putthe Code into a <div> tag and placed it in the index.php file like so:

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<?php get_header(); ?>

<div class=”flashMovie”><object classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ codebase=”https://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0&#8243; width=”180″ height=”345″>
<param name=”movie” value=”newsMenu.swf”>
<param name=”quality” value=”high”>
<embed src=”newsMenu.swf” quality=”high” pluginspage=”https://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer&#8221; type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”180″ height=”345″></embed></object>
</div>

<div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”>
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all I get is a blank Flash movie player.

Is there a known conflict of any kind with flash and php??

Can anyone offer any suggestions??
Help much appreciated.
Thank you all
Hamilton