Oh My god!
I got it working

reading your advice (eg, moving out the html and just going from <object> to <object> tag worked a tread

been using flashmusicstudio.com mp3 player

so the swf and xml files were actually to be placed in the ROOT dir, and it works a treat!!!

I think you are brilliant and can't say thanks enough for supporting this as you made me look at things a bit more closely!!

Thanks loads
Samantha