Stage color "missing" in SWF

One of our clients is having an error that we can't reproduce
and I'm wondering if any of you have seen this issue before.
We have a menu bar on their site (
see it
here) that has the stage color set to a navy in Flash 8.
Only on one person's browser (he uses Explorer 7 for PC) the
background color is showing up white. The menu itself still works
-- you can see the yellow animating when you roll over places the
menu items should be. Nobody that uses Explorer 7 for PC in our
office can recreate this.
This same person had an issue where some of his form fields
were yellow which turned out to be a Google toolbar auto-complete
feature. Could this background issue have something to do with his
browser settings?

Cyborgirl wrote:
> One of our clients is having an error that we can't
reproduce and I'm wondering
> if any of you have seen this issue before.
>
> We have a menu bar on their site
> (
http://www.cade1.com/IntegriSource/flash/menu.swf)
please provide html that holds the above SWF file.
Best Regards
Urami
"Never play Leap-Frog with a Unicorn."
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If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
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