FLVPlayback issues

I'm working on a media player that plays progressive flv
files. The progress bar doesn't work properly, it appears to extend
indefinitely and off the screen. The issue is intermittent. You can
see the issue here:
http://www.healingourplanetearth.org/mediaplayer_alpha.html
Click on Welcome, then click on High or Medium quality to
play. If you don't see the issue the first time, try some different
movies.
Thanks for your time and help!

I tried it in XP on IE and FireFox, and I don't see the
progress bar at all. On mac the progress bar extends off the
controller to infinity to the right of the controller, on windows
it doesn't show at all. I set autoplay to false and now the
progress bar functions. Is there a way to have the progress bar
work and for the progressively downloaded flv start automatically?
Thanks!

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Microsoft Windows XP
Professional
Service Pack 3
Video component
Date Created: 3/17/2011
Date Modified: 3/17/2011
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Not sure what you are asking for here.
Thanks for your assistance,
Message was edited by: jimder

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