Flash movie looks different in mac vs pc

I built a flash movie to display products. There are 3 different key frames. Two of them look the same on both mac and pc. Only one looks completely different.
It works on IE7, IE8, Firefox, and Chrome on PC. Everything looks exactly how it should.
I tested with Chrome, Safari, and Firefox on a Mac and it looks totall different.
I am using swfobject.js to embed the file and I updated flash to the most recent version on both machines.
With a windows computer, it looks like this:
On a Mac, it looks like this:
The two New Arrivals are encroaching on the image and there is no product name or item numbers.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?

Usually when a browser has an issue playing a Flash file it is due to the embedding code that is used in the html page. Can you compare your code to another page's code to see what differences there are? You should let Flash generate the embedding code rather than using some other software to do it if that is what you did. Just have Flash publkish and html page, test that page in your various browsers, and if it works, copy/paste that code in place of what you have now.

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