Actionscript 3 / Firefox / Mouse release outside stage

So I need to be able to detect when the user releases the
mouse button outside the stage/movie bounds. I am using
Actionscript 3 / Flash 9.
Since onReleaseOutside was nixed, and setCapture is no longer
there now that Flash 9 is final, I'm using an event listener for
mouse_up on the stage. This works sometimes... but specifically not
when running inside Firefox 2.0 on a Mac..or when wmode is set to
something non standard (opaque or transparent running on
Windows/Firefox).
This is quite critical actually, pretty easy to repro,
assuming you have Firefox and MAC. Just drag a slider component
onto your stage inside a test app. Publish, then run inside the
browser. If you drag the slider, mouse outside the movie bounds,
then release..then mouse back over movie, the slider continues to
animate - thinking you still have the mouse pressed.
I've also tried inspecting the buttonDown property of the
mouse move event..but once you've released outside the bounds of
the movie - it's always true.
More info at
http://www.justsuppose.com
I'm grasping for straws..anyone stumble across a
workaround???
Thanks,
Corey

UPDATE: Stumbled upon a workaround after much trial and
error. At least until they fix mouse_up.
So considering the mouseLeave event... This event is
dispatched usually as soon as your cursor leaves the bounds of the
player window. But... if you've moused down first, then dragged
outside window, the mouseLeave is not fired *until* Flash is done
tracking. In other words, until the user lets go of the mouse
button.
So now I listen for *both* mouse up and mouseLeave on the
stage object and I can reliably (cross browser), detect when the
user has released the mouse button in the case the cursor is
outside of the stage. In this scenario I only attach the mouseLeave
and mouseUp listeners on the stage after the user has first moused
down. I then remove them once I've detected the mouse up.
Still hoping for a fix, but at least this provides an
alternative (albeit sneaky) work around.

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