Flashing flash bug

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/InternetExplorer/thread/1bd84580-ed93-4a3 0-b1c1-60329b47a628
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/532521?tstart=0
the above two links talk about a problem that's becoming increasingly common for people i talk to. i can't recall an instance where this glitch has occurred on relatively powerful hardware. i won't be able to personally confirm this til around christmas.
I personally have experienced this problem with Windows 7 Pro, x86 legit. Happens for me most commonly at http://ase.zomghi2u.com - n270 atom, 1.5gb ram, gma945.
doesn't seem to happen with webkit based browsers, nor any browser in linux. (confirmed with fedora 11-12 and slackware. i suspect Mac users have nothing to worry about, either.
my theories stem from a number of things; chatango's flash embeds were known to bring a computer to it's knees by what seems like a slow memory leak, since flash 9. windows vista/7 have compositing and i believe i remember reading about how flash 10+ was meant to bring flash to the gpu? perhaps there needs to be more sandboxing in place to prevent flash from doing stupid things in vram, etc?
anyway, not going to pretend i know more than i do, just pass on any information that might help the people that do.
my main concern is that this might be a problem that doesn't get fixed because it's only immediately noticeable on lower end hardware. this could really be something that bites adobe in the *** later.

ah, the adobe link is incorrect. not sure what happened there.
anyway, to add more information, when the problem occurs for me in firefox, the entire embed will blank out and then redraw itself about half a second later. sometimes this will happen multiple times in succession. the crazy thing is sometimes parts of the firefox chrome will redraw itself in the same manner, like scrollbars, etc. i seem to be able to trigger this by clicking from text input box to text input box within various flash embeds on the same page. what ends up redrawing is relatively random. almost guaranteed to at least by the embed i clicked, switchin focus from one to another. sometimes all the embeds light up and redraw, sometimes just 1 or 2, and sometimes it'll be an embed or two plus bits of the firefox chrome.
also, i have noticed this glitch only happens to areas of the page that come after the embed i'm triggering this response from. mozilla chrome, included. for example, causing the glitch on the second chat at http://ase.zomghi2u.com will cause random bits of the page to the right and below to flash/blank/redraw.
so, perhaps this mainly has to do with capturing focus and the gpu? maybe this has more to do with windows changing how the mouse and cursor work with the gpu?
please note, i've heard of this same problem happening for both vista and 7 users.
[edit]here is a screenshot:[/edit]
Message was edited by: SinShiva

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