That was already said.

I worked my ass off on trying to get a test version of the page to validate and it still got tons of niggly little warnings that weren't even mine (they were in the supplied code) and weren't affecting anything. Stuff like OH NOES YOU DIDN'T SUPPLY AN ALT TAG OH NOES. OH NOES YOU DIDN'T ESCAPE YOUR AMPERSAND. C'mon, that stuff isn't affecting this.

My problems have nothing to do with the validation. They are entirely due to the following issues:

- Adobe Flash has a bug. One that is easily demonstratable.

- I am trying to work around that bug.

- In order to work around that bug, I need to throw out the best practices which say that I should not be using the deprecated <embed> tag, but rather should be using <object>

- Everything on the web that talks about embedding flash in a page assumes that you want all the Best Practices and assumes that Flash doesn't have a bug. So pretty much all the stuff on the web that I look up doesn't work as-is and I can only use it as guidance as I roll my own solution.

Right now I think I have a solution that's going to satisfy me, and I'm working on implementing it. It's a touch tricky because of the differences between the way IE and Firefox report the available plugins back to Javascript, but I think I'll be happy with it when I've got those ironed out. Then I just have to test it on that great VM that got posted and I should be good to go.