Embedded swf video is cropped off

I'm embedding a video from smugmug. When I post it on another site (not iWeb generated) it posts okay. But with iWeb the video is cropped off on the right. I was told that the "holding area" width needs to be changed, but I don't know how to do that. I'm assuming that is referring to the Web Widget dimensions, but it gets sized according to the size of the embedded video. Here is the source code:
<object width="425" height="318"><param name="movie" value="http://www.smugmug.com/ria/ShizVidz-2008050901.swf" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="flashVars" value="s=ZT0xJmk9MzI5MzIwNzM1Jms9dWltcXomYT00MDA2MjQwXzhoSnlOJnU9dXBkZWZvcnVt" /><embed src="http://www.smugmug.com/ria/ShizVidz-2008050901.swf" flashVars="s=ZT0xJmk9MzI5MzIwNzM1Jms9dWltcXomYT00MDA2MjQwXzhoSnlOJnU9dXBkZWZvcn Vt" width="425" height="318" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always"></embed></object>
Can anyone help me? Thanks.

According to the source of the page the width is 350 and the height is 400.
<div class="com-apple-iweb-widget-HTMLRegion" id="widget1" style="height: 400px; left: 175px; position: absolute; top: 14px; width: 350px; z-index: 1; ">
<iframe id="widget1-frame" src=".//Homefiles/widget1markup.html" frameborder="0" style="width: 100%; height: 100%;" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>
</div>
I suggest you delete the widget and add a new one. Paste the code of your flash movie and click Done.
iWeb will create a box the size of the movie.

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