IE8 distorting Flash

I have page headers made with Flash that are 750 px wide. I noticed that recently they appeared 1px too narrow and the pixel fonts were blurry. If I change the Flash width in the HTML code to 751, it looks fine (right width, fonts get crisp), even though the Flash document dimension says 750px width. I run many websites with similar headers and see this problem on lots of them.
I'm running IE8 and Flash Player 10. Since this appeared only recently, I suspect that it started with an IE update, since I haven't updated Flash Player recently. It looks okay in Firefox.
Has anyone seen a similar problem? Is there a fix? (I don't want to change all those widths to 751 and then have them be wrong if/when IE8 or whatever is causing it gets fixed.)
Thanks
Harry Tennant

Here's an example where I increased the width of the Flash piece by 1 px to make it work for IE8
http://www.sunrayisd.net/academic/Directory.cfm
You can see in this snippet of code that the Flash piece is now 751 wide and it matches the table below which is 750 wide.
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="751" height="220">
<param name="movie" value="../14Header.swf?SP=../" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="../14Header.swf?SP=../" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="751" height="220"></embed>
</object></noscript>
</div>
<table class="BodyTable" width="750" border="0" align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="365">
In the following example, both the Flash and table below are 750 wide. With IE8 you can see a misalignment along the left edge.
http://www.millsapisd.net/academic/Directory.cfm
The snippet:
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="750" height="179">
<param name="movie" value="/43Header.swf?SP=" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="/43Header.swf?SP=" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="750" height="179"></embed>
</object></noscript>
</div>
<table class="BodyTable" width="750" border="0" align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="365">
I was able to fix the text distortion problem within Flash for the pixel fonts by setting Stage.scaleMode="noScale" but I still have the width/alignment problem. These align properly in IE7 and Firefox. It appears that IE8 makes a too-small-by-one sizing error for Flash.
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