SWF options

Problem: My 3 inserted SWF 's (30 fps) play too early in a
published version (viewing through Firefox). However if I navigate
directly to the slide it plays correctly (on start of slide, play).
It will only play correctly if I navigate from 2 or more slides
before or after the slide where the SWF is located.
Now there are two options for swf in Presenter:
Presentation Settings - Flash Files tab: Controlled by
presentation playbar
Preferences - Quality tab - Disable preloading of embedded
Flash movies
From my testing:
Neither are checked: I have the problem the swf's play to
early in the local published version
When only Controlled by presentation playbar: This does
nothing to the running of the SWF. Problem still exists in the
local published version
When both Controlled & disable are checked: SWF files
runs correctly in the local published version
When only Disable preloading is checked: SWF files runs
correctly in the local published version
My two issues are:
I still cannot control the playback of the SWF using the main
control bar (I don't want to include a seperate play bar within the
swf)....
When I use the 'Disable preloading of embedded Flash movies'
this will suffice for the very small swf's but what happens you
have a SWF at the end of the presentation that is eg 2MB, and you
are on dial-up??? Does this mean this SWF does not load until you
are on that slide therefore the user needs to wait about 2 mins for
the SWF to load or does it mean that the SWF will still load
(buffer) in the background but will not start until the user in on
the slide?
Any thoughts?

One other potential issue (at least is was for me)...
When converting your video file to SWF, you can also add a
stop on first frame option during this process as well.
For example, if you're using FlixPro, you'd go into the SWF
tab and select the "STOP action on first frame" option before you
run
the conversion.
This will allow then have the swf wait for a start command
from the main presentation...and should allow the tool bar to
control what is happening. Otherwise, at least it was the case for
me...the swf will simply start up early.
As for your second question...I do believe that this would
impact dial-up users as they'd have to wait for the swf to load.

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