Safari Can't Play Video in External Monitor

There have been a couple of threads on here about this but few answers that work.
For some reason, Safari 5 will not play web videos on an external monitor regardless of whether it's on YouTube or any other site. It will play videos on my primary Macbook monitor but only shows a black screen on my external. Firefox and Chrome certainly do. I prefer to use Safari and would like to know if anyone has a fix for this other than telling us to use the other browsers.
As indicated in the signature to this post, I have the original black Macbook and am using Snow Leopard.

This is ridiculous. Video windows simply don't show up on many sites for me, i.e., MacMost. No problems in Firefox. I tried all the aforementioned solutions, trashed prefs, disabled extensions, repaired permissions, etc. No good. Safari is supposed to be THE superior browser. I hate the idea of going to Firefox, but I may have to. Safari isn't worth the grief. Any other solutions are wekcome.

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