Streaming .flv cue point problem

I’ve been working with Flash video with synced slide
presentations since February, which have been exclusively download
streaming, all based on the presentation available at the adobe web
site:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/vidtemplate_corppreso.html
My issue has come up when using this template with streaming
flv’s, the buttons that I use to reference the cue points in
the video and slides on the timeline do not work reliably;
sometimes they will shuttle the video and slides to the correct
point, usually they move the slides on timeline to the appropriate
spot and the video jumps back to the beginning. Besides this
sizable problem, the presentation plays the way it is supposed to.
Is there a setting in the component inspector that I’m
missing? Should I re-encode the video with Navigation cue points?
Any help would be appreciated.
L

If you look at the source code for the first link you'll find this at line 71:
<p id="player1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align:center;"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.thebellyfatsolution.com/flvplayer.swf" style="" id="player1" name="player1" quality="high" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=390&amp;width=504&amp;file=http://www.thebellyfatsolution.com/beta/video/BellyFatFINAL_6_30_nL.flv&link=http://www.th ebellyfatsolution.com/beta/video/BellyFatFINAL_6_30_nL.flv" height="390" width="504"></p>
<p><noscript>
Apparently your video has been encapsulated in JWPlayer. You can find out more about JWPlayer here: http://www.longtailvideo.com/players
This seems to be yet another solution to a problem that doesn't exist, and whoever runs that website fell for the sales pitch.

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