Front Row Movie Playback Suggestions

Intro....
I'm loving the new front row, especially since i can watch my Video_TS files. After using the software for a few weeks, I've realized a behavior. I want to watch movies at home similar to the movie theater. Specifically, I want to watch trailers before my selected movie.
Suggestion....
1. User selects movie, in my case under the movie folder
2. One randomly chosen trailer plays from the Theatrical Trailers section
3. Another randomly chosen trailer plays (the amount could be a preference)
4. A 10 sec intro movie welcoming people to my theater (I even tell people to shut off phones
5. Feature presentation
Conclusion....
I believe this will be a great option. Good for Apple because more people will watch the trailers. Good for users who like to watch trailers (in the theater you don't select your trailers), and good for people who have a custom movie intro (like me and Kaleidescape users). Seems like an easy thing to incorporate.
Any additional suggestions to this. If there is an applescript that can do this, please let me know.

The green status bar at the bottom shows how much data frontrow needs to grab before it thinks it can start playing the video. It doesn't show the amount of data transfered relative to the total file size. If the bar is 100% green it means that frontrow thinks there's enough of a cache to start playing the file without interruption until the end. By the time it's finished playing this cache more data will have already downloaded so it can keep playing etc etc.
In other words, it hasn't downloaded the Star Trek trailed 8 times. It starts playing before the whole thing downloads but then stops when it runs out of data to play. Basically, the cache is set too small for your connection. There's a preferences for this kind of think in the Quicktime system preferences panel but there doesn't seem to be one for Front Row. Its suppose to be automagic... unfortunately it looks horribly broken. Very very distracting actually... makes the whole feature useless in my opinion.

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Intel iMac dual 2.0 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

There is a large discussion of this problem here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=3605
21&tstart=15
Some people have reported that removing their router
and connecting directly to the ADSL modem fixes the
problem (similar to your experience) while others
(myself included) have found that removing the router
has no effect. I suppose there is a possibilty that
some ISP's block certain ports as well.
Yes that thread gave me a fix:
" I have got it working!
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1 - Go to "Sharing" on the System Preferences and
turn ON the Firewall
2 - on the right on the Firewall pane select "New"
and choose "Quicktime"
Voila, it works. (Even if you turn OFF the firewal)l
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"D"

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I have search everywhere and I haven't found a solution to my problem.
When I open Front Row to watch movie trailers online, it tells me I'm not connected to the internet. But, I am connected to the internet !
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