Flash content in a PDF question

Hi,
I have embeded a SWF into a PDF using InDesign CS3 and Acrobat Pro 8.1.7. The SWF displays and plays fine, I was able to set the psoter image in Acrobat and I set the border opion to no border. The only problem is that when a user clicks on the swf in the PDF to make it play a selection box outlines the the flash content on the page, you have to click off the page of the pdf to make it disapear. Is there a way to make this selection box invisible so that it never appears while a user is viewing the PDF?
Thanks in advance for any help on this.

There are two ways to do it. One is complicated, but easy for anyone to learn. The other requires Javascript, which I know nothing about.
First, you don't want to have the movie played by double-clicking the field. That will cause the focus to stay on the movie which is the line you don't like.
So set the movie to be hidden.
Next, draw a button and set it to be the trigger that plays the movie.
Depending on your layout, you can stop here. The button will play the movie and then when the movie is over focus is gone.
But, if you want a poster of the movie on the page, you can capture a frame and save it as a PDF. Then use the Options of the Button Properties to assign an icon to the button. That will allow you to import the captured frame.
The result will look like you clicked the movie to play it, but it was really a button.

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