Off stage object's

Hello Adobe community,
I need a little help with a project i' m working. I' m trying to create a web site and i'm using flash catalyst because i want some specific actions on it. On flash catalyst stage, i have an image with specific dimensions, let's say 1600x1200, and a button in front of the image. Also i have an object, let's assume an image, dimensions 1600x400, outside the stage, on the right side. When i'm clicking the button, this object is moving, from right to left, and is entering in the stage replacing the first image. This is my project, and here is where my problem begins. I'm having the "classic" problem with scale, so after a litllte research i found something here. I'm importing the fxp file to flash builder. On the <Application> tag, in the Main.mxml file, i'm removing the width and height attributes and replece them with this attribute: preinitialize="systemManager.stage.scaleMode='showAll'" . From flash builder menu, i'm choosing Project > Export Release Build to publish a version of my swf. I create an index.html page and i embeding the swf there. So,
The file is only scaling horizontally, which means that i only see a part of my page, something like 3200x300 on the top of the screen. The rest height is cropped and the page is blank
I can see the object that was outside the flash catalyst stage and shouldn't be visible.
Any idea how can i fix those two things?

When i'm using this code:
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
    margin-left: 0px;
    margin-top: 0px;
    margin-right: 0px;
    margin-bottom: 0px;
</style>
</head>
<body>
   <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="100%" height="100%">
<param name="movie" value="file:///C|/Users/user/Desktop/project scale/Main.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="LOOP" value="false">
<param name="SCALE" value="exactfit">
<embed src="file:///C|/Users/user/Desktop/project scale/Main.swf" width="100%" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="100%" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" loop="false" scale="exactfit" />
</object>
</body>
the result is this:
the blue arrow shows the area, that shouldn't shown, and the black arrow shows the area that should be my index page. The stage i used i flash catalyst and flash builder is the size of the image shown with the black arrow, 1600x1200. The rest are (blank area) is cropped..
If i set dimensions on the above html code:
body {
    width:1600px;
    height:1200px;
    margin-left: 0px;
    margin-top: 0px;
    margin-right: 0px;
    margin-bottom: 0px;
and the result is this:

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