Displaying podcasts with a better looking player?

With Podcast Producer 2, the podcasts that are posted to user blogs appear with the same rather plain quicktime player interface that has been around forever. Even videos on Apple's own website are presented in a nicer player. I can't figure out why Apple didn't provide a nicer player for podcasts in this release. Has anyone installed a custom SWF in the templates for the Wiki Server, and if so, could they provide some clues as to where to get started?
Interestingly, Safari seems to have a nice player built-in, much nicer than the player provided the Wiki templates. When I look at the podcasts from the RSS feed in Safari, a nice charcoal-themed player with time remaining and generous-sized search bar appears. But look at the same podcast as posted on a page, and the same tired quicktime player controls appear (the same look that has been around since the OS 8. Can't we do better than this, Apple? C'mon, if you can do it on your site, you can build it into your Server product.

One player that I have used is DashPlayer from www.tmtdigital.com. This player will playback the m4v files PP2 produces just fine (as will the more popular JW FLV player from www.longtailvideo.com). But there are a couple of issues that are making using such a flash-based player difficult in SL PP2/Wiki Server:
(1) Embedding any player requires passing the urls of the m4v files (and corresponding png thumbnails). I've yet to discover a reliable way to do so (other than hand coding them). Since I post about 100 videos a week, I need a way to pass these parameters somewhere in the workflow. Making changes to the _podcast.html file in the WikiTemplates folder doesn't seem to work, nor does copying the templates to a custom theme folder.
(2) I could pass the necessary urls through an RSS feed; Dashplayer will grab videos/thumbnails from a standard RSS feed (such as a YouTube feed). However, the RSS feeds produced by SL PP2/Wiki Server do not seem to work with Dashplayer. Don't know why the player would take YouTube feeds but not ones from SL PP2/Wiki server, but for what it's worth, they also don't seem to validate at the various online feed validator services. Even the "subscribe in iTunes link" doesn't work; iTunes reports there are no media files in the feed, even though there are plenty.

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