QuickTime X doesn't playback video properly in WordPress site

I have a WordPress site and I use QuickTime for the videos on the site. I use the MakeRefMovie application to direct people to one of two movies, one formatted for computers (H.264 .mov file), the second movie file for iPhone (.m4v file).
The problem is that when I hit the page with Snow Leopard and QuickTime X the video controls on screen don't work, I have to hit the spacebar to play the video.
The answer is NOT for me to install QuickTime 7 as I need to have a solution for others visiting my website. And if anybody has a new Mac or is running Snow Leopard and only QuickTime X then it appears to them that my videos are broken as they can't be played.
I could probably set the attribute to autoplay but then the user has no way to stop the video as the video controls onscreen are inoperable.
Here's a sample page which plays fine in QT7 but is broken in QTX:
http://www.hawaii247.org/2009/09/20/kealakehe-crushes-hilo-49-22-in-biif-footbal l/
Really frustrating that this 'upgrade' has broken things.
My html code looks like this:
<object classid="clsid:02bf25d5-8c17-4b23-bc80-d3488abddc6b" width="500" height="295" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab#version=6,0,2,0"><param name="autoplay" value="false" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="cache" value="true" /><param name="kioskmode" value="true" /><param name="volume" value="50" /><param name="src" value="http://www.hawaii247.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/20090919_hilo-kealak ehe-fball-r.mov" /><embed type="video/quicktime" width="500" height="295" src="http://www.hawaii247.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/20090919_hilo-kealakeh e-fball-r.mov" volume="50" kioskmode="true" cache="true" wmode="transparent" autoplay="false"></embed></object>
Message was edited by: Baron Sekiya

Yep. Just as you say when viewed using Safari and Snow Leopard. Controls don't work. Nor does clicking on the player window because of the "kioskmode" tag code.
I'm not an html expert and have never used WordPress but it appears that some object is "covering" the entire area of the video preventing any mouse click.
I turned on the "Develop" tools found in Safari (Advanced preferences) and took a deeper look at your page elements (right click on the page). It reports an improperly closed embed tag or a "non matching" tag error (I don't know which).
If you open your link using Safari and slowly double click right next (right side) to the video you'll see the phantom outline that is covering the video (and the controls).
If it were my page I'd use more "modern" html code (the embed tag is dead) and an "external" (another server) method of delivering the javascript code for QuickTime files:
http://developer.apple.com/internet/ieembedprep.html
Additional help for proper code writing:
http://www.qtbridge.com/pageot/pageot.html

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