Animated GIF 1px flicker

Hello,
I'm running into a curious problem with Animated GIFs exported from Fireworks CS4. The animated gif looks fine when viewed in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, but in IE it has a vertical 1px line that flickers (or disappears) and reveals the previous frame. Any idea what it is and how to avoid it?
Thanks in advance!

Sounds strange. Can you please post the GIF file (and the original PNG, too), here, so that we can check? Thanks!

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> But the original image is an animated GIF and it's less
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> how
> does it increase in size 100 times when I save it
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> change
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than 1KB big! So
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even if I don't
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PNG file but I can
> link
> you to the original 650 Byte Animated GIF:
>
>
http://www.aotplaza.com/Prod.gif
>
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telling it to save
> extra
> information in the file?
>

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>
"I have to wonder why the black background was included on every frame of the moving shape."
 
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 Whatever application it was created in should have been able to render it out with a transparent BG. But I suppose the creator had his/her reasons for going with the black BG.
 
 (Full disclosure: I ran across
<s>that same</s> a similar animation back in December, and the version I grabbed only had the black showing through the inside of the tesseract. I opened it in ImageReady and

added
 a black BG so the edges didn't look jaggedy.)
 
 
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