Flash movie height & browser scrollbar

I have an image gallery with a bunch of thumbnails displayed
on the page in a grid-like layout. Currently, the swf sits in a
HTML page set at 100% width and height. There's a resize listener
that adjusts the layout so that the thumbnails all fit on the page
at once. So, as the browser window gets narrower, the columns
decrease and rows increase as the thumbnails get pushed down the
page.
The problem is, once the thumbnails get pushed far down far
enough to go past the bottom of the browser, the overflow is hidden
and the thumbs "below the fold" are not accessible.
Is there a way to pass the dynamic height of the SWF, so that
the browser detects whether or not it should display the side
scroll bar?

I think what you did must work (about setting the SWF width
and height to 100% HTML).

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