Flash text and buttons don't work in Dreamweaver 4

I have been working through the tutorials in the user manual to insert Flash text and buttons in Dreamweaver 4. I have carefully filled out the dialog box and pressed the apply button. The properties inspector always reads undefined in the file catagory and the text or button doesn't work when I press play, it just displays a white box in display mode and in the browser previews. I'm using OS 9.2.2 on an iBook 700. I increased the memory for Dreamweaver to 91 mb, I reinstalled the newest version of Flash but nothing works. Can anyone help?

I'm using OS 9.2.2 on an iBook 700

when you insert the Flash Text with the Flash Text dialog box, do you get
any error messages?

try this to make sure it isn't a mac only problem-

Open a new file using File-->New
---->Don't Save this File<----
Insert an image using the Image button on the Insert Bar
{put in any image that is INSIDE of your Local Site Folder}

look in the source-
The img tag should have a full hard drive path to the image- could you put
that in reply to the newgroup or forum?
<img src="file:///Macintosh%20HD/foldername1/foldername2/image.jpg">

Funky characters will show as url encoded with %something.
%20 is a blank space- it is Okay, as long as it isn't the first character of
the HD name.
if there is a "funky" character- the folder or HD will have to be renamed
for Dw to work correctly. The funky character is preventing dw from figuring
the path to the local site folder.

Technote-
http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/ts/documents/preview_in_browse
r_site_map.htm
or
http://macromedia.com/go/14452

in addition to the list of characters given in the technote- there's also a
problem with having a blank space as the first character of the HD name.

examples of bad folder names in the path down to the Local Site folder:
"fred's stuff" the comma
"Sept:2002" the colon
"02/September/2002" the slashes

Another issue that can happen with Dw4 and earlier on classic mac:
(isn't a problem with MX or newer)
the length of the "name" of the site.
In the Site Definition, the name of the "Site Name" (top box in the Local
Info page) has to be less than 20 letters on a macintosh, because Dw tries
to create a file named sitenameChanged.txt in Dreamweaver
folder/Configurations/Site Cache/
If sitename is more than 20 letters, that file can't be created because it's
more than the mac limit of 31 characters. Thus the site cache can be
created, but the incremental changes can't be tracked- and Dw will
contstantly nag about the cache needs to be re-created after every change is
made.

I think you may have solved the problem. My Hard drive has a character in it that is not supported. I will try this and report back.

Your suggestion worked! I had an accented character in my hard drive name. I changed it to an unaccented character and I was successful in inserting the flash text. Thanks so much!