SWF works fine but breaks when embedded online - very odd!

Hello,
I encountered a really strange Flash problem and appreciate any help or insight you could share.
As you can see on http://knowledge.allianz.com/en/media/ecards/50/blind/62.html the last part of the Flash movie seems to be broken. Oddly enough, when I take the embedded SWF and view it seperately:http://knowledge.allianz.com/nopi_downloads/swfs/Allianz_ecard_holland_2_1.swf - everything seems to be fine!
I'm not a flash expert, I don't know what can go wrong with embedding etc. but the actual FLA file seems to be ok, the map layer that is coming through randomly at the end shouldn't even be there! The frames at this point of the timeline on this layer are actually empty.
Has anyone ever come across a similar issue and can point me in the right direction?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Paz

Yes, I resolved the problem. It had nothing to do with layer visibility or masking. The FLA I provided had all layers visible. I downloaded it myself and checked it again and there are definitely no crossed out layers.
The issue was a completely different one. As so often the weirdest problems have the simplest solutions. The SWF was embedded with wmode='transparent' which caused a screenshot that the client put as background of the div containing the Flash to show through a part of the SWF that didn't have a background. That's why it looked like a random part of the flash movie suddenly appears at this point, when in reality it was only an image on the site (if they had used yellow smileys as placeholders I would have noticed it a lot sooner). I didn't notice the transparent bit in the SWF because I only tested it on a white background. I have now put a white background in and everything seems to be fine. Thanks for having a look anyway.
take care,
Paz

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