Swf act in diffferent way in browsers

Hi.
I'm developing a rpg game project now, and I found a very strange thing. My swf act in different way in different browsers. My swf doesn't working properly in mozilla firefox. In google chrome, and IE works just fine. How is that so? what could be reason for that? I used external xml file stored on my server so mayby browsers handle xml in different way? But I'm sure xml i loaded into swf in every browser.
Here's link for my game:
http://www.truesign.ie/rpg
In fight section (after few seconds) you can attack enemies in chrome and IE but not in mozilla.

I did it before and nothing had change. By the way, on my local machine swf it's working fine in flash and even in firefox. But not from server. I'm sure browser load correct version of a swf file. Te newest version is 1.1 as on first screen.

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1) I'm a composer/arranger for musical theater productions. So, as I compose or arrange individual songs, I eventually save them all as PDFs.
2) To create a master piano/conductor's score, I used to create a master PDF file, then open up each individual song's PDF, and drag the pages into the master PDF file. Immediately after doing so, I was able to view the new pages in two-page mode, in the context of the whole book, to make sure the page turns were the way I planned them (since I often lay the music out with quick page turns in mind for the pianist/conductor). If for some reason the pages were opposite from what I planned, I just inserted a blank page before the newly-added song, to make the page turns work the way I needed them to.
3) When I was done importing all the songs, I'd print out the whole score.
My current problem
What I used to do (i.e., open up two documents, and drag the pages of one into the other) no longer works the way it used to. Now, Preview seems to view them as multiple separate documents, even though they're under the roof, so to speak, of one document. Let's say I drag 3 documents into the PDF I want to use as the master PDF. Let's say that each document is only a single page. I can't view them in two-page mode. I can select Two-Page mode in the menu, but it won't alter the view. Now, if document #1 is one page, and document #2 is five pages, I can view document #2 in two-page mode, but not document #1 and #2, together. (i.e., ideally, I'd want to see the one-page document #1 on the left-side in two-page mode, and the first page of document #2 on the right side.
Also, saving is a problem. It used to be that when I dragged the new pages into the document, I could just hit "save" and the new pages would be immediately included in the master PDF file. Now, Preview treats everything as separate documents, so I'll import document #5, let's say, hit "save" and it'll want to save the changes to "document #5."
The only workaround I've found for all this is to select all the pages in the master PDF and hit print, followed by saving as a new PDF.
But, do I have to do this on every addition?!? I have 40 songs, a Title Page and a Table of Contents that need to be imported into one PDF document. And they're not all ready to go right now. I was going to add a couple songs each day as I get them finalized and ready for print.
Isn't there a way to just add the new pages to the new document without Preview treating them as a collection of separate documents?
Thanks for your help.
Kevin

Thanks Barney! It is, indeed, working for me now. It's different than the previous incarnation of Preview, with no explanation of the differences in the Help menu (that I could find, that is).
So, thanks for your help!
Kevin

Is there a way to speed up Premiere's screen refresh when editing?

Hello all!
I've been doing a lot of editing in the time-line. I'm editing two concurrent video tracks, and three concurrent audio tracks.
Whenever I split or delete portions of a clip, Premiere re-draws the tracks which takes several seconds (maybe 7 seconds or so?).
I know it doesn't seem to be a lot of time, but I am making many edits and it slows me down.
I know that if one "turns-off" the fancy graphics that display little video pictures and audio waveform displays that this screen refresh goes faster.
But is there some I should be setting to optimize my computer specific to screen refresh?
I believe I have mucho RAM, 500 gig of "extra" disk space, a fast dual core processor and am running Windows XP.
My project is located on a secondary drive.
Would a fancy video card help speed up the screen refresh?
Thanks!
--Tom Nickel

Hunt,
(By the way, thanks to everyone for all the time that they're putting into this thread. I didn't think that it
would have evolved into such complexity ..)
My Windows Hardware Acceleration was set "all the way to the right".
I tried it "all the way to the left" and then, just one "notch" less than "all the way to the right".
(Hope that makes sense!)
It didn't fix the problem :-(
(Do I need to re-start Windows when I change this setting? I did not do that ..)
Here is some more information:
I think I had first noticed the video latency last August. I had attributed it to a lack of hard drive space and
installed a new internal hard drive (I have four 500G sata hard drives in my computer.)
Also, I had installed Premiere 7 on my computer about two weeks ago. (I have been using "3" to date.)
Both 3 and 7 act the same way, so I'm thinking that the issue probably isn't caused by a corrupt installation of Premiere.
I would suspect having both 3 and 7 installed concurrently as the culprit, but the issue existed long before installing 7.
If it were a system RAM failure, I'd suspect that I'd see a far more catastrophic failure?
And, when the video is playing "catch-up", I'm not seeing excessive drive activity, so I'm not sure
how big a role that the hard drove(s) are playing in this anomaly.
re: hard drives - the only set-up that I changed in the BIOS when installing hard drives was to turn on the
SATA interface for the drives .. maybe I've missed an optimization?
Maybe I need to go thru the "optimize your PC" list ..
Last thought for now: Is my Nividia GeForce video card adequate? I've got another video card that I can try.
Thanks copiously again!

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