Can't run multiple instances on same page!

Question

Hi,
Since I got no response on the shadowbox forums after 2 weeks, I thought it's worth to post it here and hope someone can help me out.
Note: This is also related on non-joomla pages. I've tested it on plain html as well (by Dreamweaver) and get the same issue.
The following issue was posted by me on the shadowbox forums:
I was wondering if the following is possible.
I've tried almost everything where I can think of, but no luck.
Searched many forums and googled a lot, but without success.
I got feeling that I'm so close and missing some simple solution.
So I'm stuck here, I'm not able to figure it out.
This is what I want to achieve:
My website is running on Joomla 1.5. And I'm using a Shadowbox extension.
In an article I've put multiple SWF movies, like previews acting like buttons.
So when clicking on a SWF button/movie, Shadowbox opens and plays a related FLV movie.
To achieve this part I've followed the instructions at this site under FAQ > first paragraph.
So far so good...
Now the ugly thing is when putting multiple swf buttons on a single page, after clicking a random button Shadowbox always displays the same flv movie. I did some altering with ID's and such but had no luck.
Even try to alter with the Shadowbox options and variables, flashVars and such (at this site under Options and Usage) but that worked out for me.
The strange thing is when placing the buttons, let's say in an article belonging to a section and category and make the articles paginated, after clicking the swf button the related flv plays. Browsing to the next page and clicking the button, the related flv will play also. This is the way it should be. Unfortunately it doesn't work when multiple buttons are displayed on the frontpage or an single article regardless whether they belong to sections and categories or not.
Even when a single code is placed in a single article and display 2 or more articles containg a different swf and a different related flv link only the last added flv plays with every random swf button/movie.
This the code I'm using for each swf (actionscript behavior):
FIRST INSTANCE SWF=====================================
on (release) {
getURL("javascript:openShadowbox
('http://test.cquence-multimedia.nl/images/cqmm_test.flv','flv','title')");
SECOND INSTANCE SWF=====================================
on (release) {
getURL("javascript:openShadowbox
('http://test.cquence-multimedia.nl/images/WizardFinal_1.flv','flv','title')");
================================================
This is the code I'm using in the article (2 instances on a single page):
=======================================================
<!-- FIRST INSTANCE -->
<script src="Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<object id="FlashID" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="150" height="50" data="images/default_swf_button.swf">
<param name="movie" value="images/default_swf_button.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
<param name="swfversion" value="9.0.45.0" /> <!-- This param tag prompts users with Flash Player 6.0 r65 and higher to download the latest version of Flash Player. Delete it if you don’t want users to see the prompt. -->
<param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" /> <!-- Next object tag is for non-IE browsers. So hide it from IE using IECC. --> <!--[if !IE]>-->                       
<object width="150" height="50" data="images/default_swf_button.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<!--<![endif]-->
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
<param name="swfversion" value="9.0.45.0" />
<param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" /> <!-- The browser displays the following alternative content for users with Flash Player 6.0 and older. -->
<div>
<h4>Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" border="0" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" width="112" height="33" /></a></p>
</div>
<!--[if !IE]>-->
</object>
<!--<![endif]-->
</object>
</p>
<script type="text/javascript">
swfobject.registerObject("FlashID");
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function openShadowbox(content, player, title, width, height, options){
Shadowbox.open({
content:"http://test.cquence-multimedia.nl/images/cqmm_test.flv",
player:"flv",
title:"SHADOWBOX FLASHBUTTON TEST FLV",
width:"800px",
height:"600px",
</script>
<!-- SECOND INSTANCE -->
<script src="Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<object id="FlashID1" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="150" height="50" data="images/default_swf_button2.swf">
<param name="movie" value="images/default_swf_button2.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
<param name="swfversion" value="9.0.45.0" /> <!-- This param tag prompts users with Flash Player 6.0 r65 and higher to download the latest version of Flash Player. Delete it if you don’t want users to see the prompt. -->
<param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" /> <!-- Next object tag is for non-IE browsers. So hide it from IE using IECC. --> <!--[if !IE]>-->        
<object width="150" height="50" data="images/default_swf_button2.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<!--<![endif]-->
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
<param name="swfversion" value="9.0.45.0" />
<param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" /> <!-- The browser displays the following alternative content for users with Flash Player 6.0 and older. -->
<div>
<h4>Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.</h4>
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" border="0" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" width="112" height="33" /></a>
</div>
<!--[if !IE]>-->
</object>
<!--<![endif]-->
</object>
<script type="text/javascript">
swfobject.registerObject("FlashID1");
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function openShadowbox (content, player, title, width, height, options){
Shadowbox.open({
content:"http://test.cquence-multimedia.nl/images/WizardFinal_1.flv",
player:"flv",
title:"SHADOWBOX FLASHBUTTON TEST BRIAN",
width:"800px",
height:"600px",
</script>
=======================================================
This is the link to the page in question:
http://test.cquence-multimedia.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=13
Please, any suggestions would be great!
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards,
John.

Answer 1

Sorry...I still don't get it. What is it about Windows FUS that keeps iTunes from running running the process twice? It can run many other non-Apple windows apps in multiple user sessions (commercial apps, open source apps, audio/video apps, networked apps). I can even run two different virtual machines at the same time under two different user sessions.
Why can iTunesHelper.exe run twice but iTunes.exe cannot? Why can I run Safari at the same time? Quicktime Player runs fine under multiple user sessions.
Blaming it on Windows and/or FUS sounds like FUD. Can anyone give a valid technical reason? Semaphores? Mutexes? An admission (and explanation) that the Windows version is purposely crippled?