Embedded swf with a flash of a white box

Does anyone know how to get rid of the box that flashes for a split second before the embedded autoplay swf on two of my websites: http://roanokeartists.com and http://psychhealthroanoke.com ?

Hi, I haven't implemented this myself yet but came across it in Apple's support documentation, complete page here http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5068
This bit specifically:
About opening the HTML widget
Depending on how complicated your HTML Dashboard widget is, your readers may experience a flash during HTML initialization when they open the widget in iBooks. To avoid this flash, modify your Dashboard widget so it tells iBooks when to switch from displaying the Default.png file to displaying the running HTML widget.
Make these three modifications to add this optional feature:
Add a IBNotifiesOnReady item set to true in the Dashboard widget's info.plist file, so iBooks knows this Dashboard widget will tell it when to switch to displaying the running HTML widget:
<key>IBNotifiesOnReady</key>
<true/>
Set your Dashboard widget to load the Apple javascript library:
<script type="text/javascript" src="AppleClasses/AppleWidget.js"> </script>
Set your Dashboard widget to let iBooks know when the HTML initialization begins, and iBooks can switch from showing the Default.png file to displaying the running HTML widget by calling (in javascript):
widget.notifyContentIsReady()
Important: If you choose to modify your Dashboard widget to avoid the flash, be sure to do all three of the above steps. You must compete all of the steps for this to function properly.
I hope it fixes your problem!

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Message was edited by: shaun_b-00

Included below is my embed source. I used Dreamweaver CS4 to produce it, the Website that is having the grief is http://www.thenewflyfisher.com/ there is a black jpeg of our logo near that bottom of their page and below it a big white square, that big white gap directly below is where our flash should be playing. That piece of code currently is linking to their servers which obviously isnt working.
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