Pre Director 11 Shockwave Content breaking

ALL Director developers should read this:
http://www.adobedirectoronline.com/tutorials/tutorial_backwardCompatability.php
If you do not (at the minimum) make changes to the page
containing your shockwave file, the content will break. You must
include the playerVersion="10" parameter in your embed/object tags
or the shockwave loader screen appears and nothing ever loads
This is a major departure from how Macromedia handled
Director updates. Under Macromedia backwards compatibility was an
important feature for both platforms. Under Adobe not only are we
forced to make edits so that pre Director 11 content is supported,
the backwards compatibility is supported on WINDOWS only!
For this reason I am no longer recommending that customers
update to shockwave 11 until Adobe corrects this problem for all
platforms and resumes backwards compatibility for older Director
content. The temporary fix instituted by the team in Bangalore is
serving to undermine the Director community's breadth of existing
content that by and large is still ahead of its time. Also there
appear to be other bugs introduced into the content so this
developer is converting shockwave content to downloadable
executables for the Mac platform.

SO far I have not even found a system (MAC or PC) where the
compatibility operation actually succeeds. The plugin simply goes
to a screen where it says the compatibility components are
downloading and then just hangs. THis is historically the first
release of shockwave that I recall where an update actually breaks
so much prior contentcompletely. Setting the playerVersion=10
pretty much guarantees a hanging request for compatibility
components that dont appear to exist/never download and playing the
content as sw11 introduces so many bugs that 3d content is
unplayable.
There is a fortunately a fall back position. Write a
Javascript detection scheme to check for sw11 and deny viewing
saying they have an incompatible plugin and need to uninstall and
download player 9.0.0.034 available on the adobe site here:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_18629&sliceId=1
This of course makes it impossible to adopt the new sw11
platform for authoring. However content authored in Dir MX (version
10) is compatible with plugin version 9.0.0.034
Macromedia left quite a high standard on compatibilty issues
that Adobe seems to fall severely short of the mark on. I guess we
know what to expect from here on out.

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