SWF Plays Slow in Mac Browsers

My website works fine in all browsers except Mac browsers
where it runs really slow. This is highly irritating and makes no
sense to me. Does anybody know why this occurs and how it can be
fixed?

Oh dear, its taken quite a bashing today. You have anything
positive to say to make me feel better? Plenty of other people have
applauded the navigation, but I guess each to their own. I could
stick up for the elements you've knocked but I don't want to fuel
more criticism, its my baby you see.
Anyway this isn't a debate about the design. It works fine on
PCs so I'm assuming the problem doesn't lie with PNGs and alphas
and gradients and all that, and it works fine on really old PCs and
in stand alone players on Macs. The problem I presume is with what
is talked about in this article:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2005/08/flash_player_8.cfm.
I was just wondering if this can fixed yet?
I'm pleasantly surprised you say things are whizzing around
at dizzying heights because that is the way its supposed to be, but
I've one or two reports of it running slow on Macs, so I really am
confused.
The only assets I'm loading in are the examples of work (i.e.
the thumbs - bundled with the text, and the full image of the work
when the thumbs are clicked). I am not using AS to unload them no,
but the play head plays to the next frame where the first loaded
movie is no longer there and the second movie is.
All that said, it works fine an even old PCs so it should be
the same on Macs. Thanks loads for your help, even though my egos a
bit bruised after your helpful criticisms, ha I like it anyway and
I guess I'm the client in this case.

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