Helo with install, see player but does not load video

Hello, I've gone through the install video tutorial twice.
I can get the dashplayer to load, but it will NOT play any video, nor show any image. I also don't get any errors, the loading wheel just spins for ever...
:(

Here is what I see when I view source on the page:

<div class="content clear-block">
    <span id="thmr_17" class="thmr_call">
  <object id="dashplayer" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="652" height="432" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab">
   <param name="movie" value="http://artandpepper.com/dev/player/dashPlayer.swf" />
   <param name="FlashVars" value="node=6&id=dashplayer" />

   <param name="quality" value="high" />
   <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
   <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
   <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" />
   <embed name="dashplayer" swliveconnect="true" allowScriptAccess="always" src="http://artandpepper.com/dev/player/dashPlayer.swf" 
      width="652" 
      height="432" 
      border="0" 
      type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
      wmode="transparent" allowfullscreen="true" quality="high" flashvars="node=6&id=dashplayer" />
</object></span>

  </div>

So I do see the node ID correctly passed, and the ID is dashplayer... what else am I missing? Any tips as to where the issue might be coming from or a way to debug this?? Thanks!

Sebastian.