Movie freeze on site re-visit in Firefox and Opera

Hi all,
I'm very new to flash development. I've done a movie that is
about 1.5MB in size. I created a pre-loader that just flips from
frame 1 to 2 until the percentage complete is greater than 99%.
On Internet Explorer 7 the movie works fine every time. If
you've visited the site before the pre-loader is skipped and the
movie starts from frame 3.
With Firefox and Opera something strange happens. The first
time you visit the site it all works perfectly. When you go back to
the website without clearing the internet cache, the pre-loader
doesn't work it just stops at a given percentage and then a pop-up
says a script is causing flash 8 to run slowly.
Does anyone know what causes this? I've seen posts that
recommend putting a few extra frames in and adding a hi-res image
to them to give the pre-loader something to do, but this doens't
seem to work. It just increases the movie size!
Any help what-so-ever would be very much appreciated.
Thanks

I found the cause of the problem. The server was compressing the swf file to reduce bandwidth and setting Content-Encoding: gzip. This means that Firefox and Opera receive the file but you have to right and click play to play the file or do a refresh. The solution is to change the server settings not to compress swf files. However I cannot understand why it should work in IE but not firefox or opera.

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