Thank you all. I rendered my 'movie' as a series of .tif files, which I then convert to .png32 in Fireworks. ( It's actually 3 different movies that are combined in Flash.) You can import them into Flash without optimizing them, Flash will take care of that for you. (2Mb is really fairly small for a movie of these dimensions and length) You can then open and play your .swf file. When you do this, you will be able to select File/Create Projector, which will make your .exe file for you. A further note.. Flash will choke when attempting to make movies this large ( I think the .fla was about 30Mb ). I had to continually figure ways to trick Flash and get around the 'error' messages it will send you when overloading it. Good luck.