Leopard and ABC streaming video player incompatibility?

Since installing Leopard (clean install) on an iMac G5, the quality of video streaming from ABC has deteriorated -- it is now stops and stalls. Does anyone know if there is some incompatibility between Leopard and the ABC episode player? Or are there some settings I can change to fix this problem.
This is not Internet congestion as I have tried it at all times of the day, and also the ABC episode player works well in Tiger (running on my other G5).

I've had decent luck with MLB.TV with the following work around. I just remove the Windows Media Plug-in from the /Library/Internet Plug-Ins. Then when you try to watch (or listen to) a game, you get a message saying that Safari isn't supported, but you do get the option to "Proceed". After hitting "Proceed" the page starts to load and then you get the message saying something along the lines of "Safari can't display the content, would you like Windows Media Player to try. Click OK and the stand-alone Windows Media Player should open the stream. And from the app, you can resize the window. A bit clunky, and it probably won't allow for the soon to be released Multi-game Mosaic option, but it works - even on a 3 year old iMac
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