Flash movie looks different in some IE8 browsers

Hi All,
I have a website http://www.pestcontrolonline.com which looks fine in firefox, safari etc, but in some versions of IE 8 or 9 the flash movie looks wrong or doesn't display. For example the insect guide vertical scroller on the right hand side of the page goes out of alignment with the actual scroller scrolling out the top of the back ground image.
Also on the main page beneath the flash movie that shows the special offers is another flash movie that segments and rotates the image, on some browsers this doesn't show at all.
If the flash movies didn't show in any version of IE then i would assume that there was a problem cross browser wise, but in our office it shows on virtually all of our computers fine, except for two and all computers run the same browser version and connect to the internet via our company server. I have tried several things including re inserting the flash movies, but nothing really changes.
Any ideas or suggestions would be gratefully recieved.
Thanks
Lee

Altruistic, what happens when you click No? Does the error appear?
I ran the IE8 debugger to see if i could investigate further and I actually did not see the same thing you did.
I ran into problems with 3 things:
jquery.min.js
SpryData.js
It's reporting that certain variables are null or not objects
tabsandaccordions.js
says "object does not support this property or method", referring to this:
if($.cookie('/careercenter/menustate')) { $('#menu').accordion('activate', $('#' + $.cookie('/careercenter/menustate')).parent('h3')); };
Again, thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction. I'm really not sure what is going on. Is this something other than a compatibility issue?

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>I just used some simple, built-in Flash buttons (with no
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