Control Test Movie (settings)

novice here, flash cs3 on mac
when i Control > Test Movie with an animation, the preview is not cropped to the stage size
i see eveything out in the grey, which i don't want to see
i just can't find the right settings, if they exist
i'm assuming the stage is akin to the page bounding box in illustrator, so test movie should behave like 'print preview'?
thnx, sam
ps, god i miss the classroom, friends of ed books and lynda.com are great but still!

thnx,
i guess my prob is, my test swf just opens in a new Flash tab, same size as the Flash drawing board area
my banner is only 150 px tall, and i can't even minimize the flash window that short, plus it's a pain to have resize your flash window everytime you want to view a properly 'cropped' preview
can i set test movie to automatically open in a new correctly-sized window? i understand the swf will ultimately be viewed on a browser-sized html page, but doesn't the stage crop out everything in the grey when you publish it??

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>
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