Videoblogging problems with WP

I enough about WP and PHP to get me in trouble. I have managed to configure plugins and tweak my themes but for the life of me I can't figure this one out.

I am trying to add youtube videos to my posts and have installed virtually every WP plugin listed here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Video and I have not gotten a single one to work.

Has anyone been able to di this on Dreamhost? I am wondering if there is some server configuration that could be inhibiting basic functionality common to these sorts of plugins.

Any help would be appreciated.

pete

In WordPress to embed video, you have to TURN OFF the "rich text" post editor in order for the embed Flash code to work.

To do this, in your WP admin section go to your "Users" page and under "Your Profile" way at the bottom it will say "Use the visual rich editor when writing." Just uncheck the box next to this text, then hit the "Update Profile" button.

Now when you go back to your post editing screen you will be able to input the embed video code and it will show up.

Then, when you want to go back to the "rich text" editing box, just go back to the "Users" page and re-check the box.

Hope that makes sense. Kind of a pain, but it happens with all the embed players.

THANK YOU for solving myproblem!!!

Before I tried to turn off the rich editor from the general preferences - the key was doing it in the user preferences.

pete