swfobject 2.2 dynamic testing fails to detect Flash in the 32-bit version of IE8 running on the 64-bit WinXP

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swfobject 2.2 dynamic testing fails to detect Flash in the 32-bit version of 
IE8 running on the 
64-bit WinXP, though v2.1 works fine.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. run testsuite_2_1/test_dynamic.html in the 32-bit version of IE8 on 64-bit 
WinXP
2. run testsuite_2_2/test_dynamic.html in the 32-bit version of IE8 on 64-bit 
WinXP

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Step 1: swf is presented
Step 2: alternative content is presented

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/test_suite
IE8 32-bit version
WinXP 64-bit version

Please provide any additional information below.
Also tested in IE7 with same result.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by lewis.fr...@gmail.com on 25 Jun 2009 at 6:47

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Installed Flash version is 10.0.22.87

Original comment by lewis.fr...@gmail.com on 25 Jun 2009 at 6:52

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Hm... after testing on another of our 64-bit machines and finding that it 
worked fine, I uninstalled and 
reinstalled Flash on the failing machine -- now the 2.2 test suite works as 
expected. 

Corrupt Flash Player install as described in bug #1? But why would the version 
string have been available to v2.1 
but not to 2.2? Has that part of the detection code changed?

Original comment by lewis.fr...@gmail.com on 25 Jun 2009 at 8:00

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Happy that this solved it for you, but it is strange indeed. 

No, we haven't changed much detection code between v2.1 and 2.2 for IE, we just
cleaned up a couple of old routines aimed at fp6. 

Original comment by bobbyvandersluis on 26 Jun 2009 at 9:11

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