Full Browser Flash

Hey guys,
I need to make my site full browser flash because when a
portfolio element is clicked in its menu, a black overlay fades in
and a project swf is called. Simple enough, but of course the
overlay needs to fill the user's window otherwise it will look
disjointed.
When I publish to full browser flash I have set the
dimensions to 100% and got rid of the margins. The only problem is
that the image and pixel text is distorted because they aren't at
their proper size! Is there a certain size I should build to?
I had one idea that I could have a flat colour background
that uses the stage class to scale it's size whilst the content
stays the same size, the black overlay would use the scale class to
define it's size too.
Would this work? I would obviously need to make sure that the
central site stays central.
Any ideas?
Cheers
Sam

you will have to change the scalemode of the flash movie.
AS1,2
Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";
If you are using AS3:
// assuming mcStage is a Stage object
mcStage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;

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