Using flowplayer videos in RoboHelp 9

Hi folks.
I'm having real difficulty with intalling flowplayer into RH9 topics. I've followed many of the options on the flowplayer website and all of them seem to fail after they have been added to the RoboHelp topic. The code below takes a hyperlink to the video and then loads it into a player that displays at 100% of the frame (this is controlled by a separate css file).
The code I'm using is (approximately):
<body>
<a class="inline-video" href="http://pathtomymovie.mp4" id="player"></a>
<script type="text/javascript">flowplayer("player",
          {src: 'http://rss.serif.com/rss/flowplayer/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.1.swf', wmode: 'transparent'},{
    clip: {          scaling: 'fit' },
    });</script>
</body>
The css snippet is as follows:
html, {height:100%;}
a.inline-video {
                 display:block;
                 width:100%;
                 height:100%;
                 margin:0 auto;
                 text-align:center; }
body {
                    height:100%;
                    font-family:Verdana;
                    font-size:9pt;
                    background-color:#ffffff; }
This works fine when previewed and when added by hand to an output file. However, I really need to be able to put this into a topic and generate the webhelp on an ad hoc basis.
I have three main problems. The first is that Robohelp removes the code that it doesn't understand and often adds it's own to replace it. Before upgrading to 9 I managed to get around this by ensuring that once created, the file wasn't reopened but this doesn't help if you accidentally open it for some reason.
The second issue I have is that when the file is generated, Robohelp insists on specifying the javascript lang version as 1.2. This is completely incorrect.
My third issue is that although I can con RH9 into generating the html by not reopening the topic after it's been edited, it doesn't work if I add breadcrumb links to the bottom of the topic instead of the top. The video simply won't display at all.
The path to the javascript file in the header seems to remain unchanged as expected apart from again adding a lang version on export.
Has anyone else tried this? I'm really desperate to find a workable solution.
Thanks and Regards,
Caroline

Hi Willam,
Sorry about not replying sooner, I've had difficulty getting online since my last post!
Thanks for your input, I did try it but couldn't get consistent results. However, I have found a way that works (and that RoboHelp accepts without complaining). In case anyone else ends up with a similar problem, here's the code:
This need to go somewhere in the <head> </head> section.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pathtoflowplayerjs/flowplayer-3.1.1.min.js"></script>
<body>

<img class="splash" src="../Graphics/UI/splash.png" alt="" style="border: none;"
   border="0" />
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">flowplayer("player", {src: "http://pathtoflowplayer/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.1.swf", wmode: 'transparent'},
                //Set Product Key
                key: '#$xx00x0xxx0000xxx0x0',
                //Setup Clip options
                clip: {
                // in url: only change folder and filename to match video file path
                                url: "http://pathtovideo/myvideo.mp4",
                                autoPlay: true,
                                autoBuffering: true,
                                scaling: "fit"
                //Setup Play options
                play: {
                                label: null,
                                replayLabel: "click to play again"
);</script>
</body>
</html>
The following css tells the splash image and player to resize to the browser (or frame) and ensures that the player controls are always visible:
/* ensures that the html page and body is reset to 100 percent */
html, body {height:100%;}
/* styling for the actual flowplayer container */
div.inline-video {
            display:block;
            width:100%;
            height:84%;
            margin:0 auto;
/* styling for splash image */
img.splash {
   width:100%;
   height:auto;
(This code leaves RoboHelp feeling all warm and fuzzy and it doesn't feel the need to butcher it on output.) My thanks to everyone that has looked into this for me and I hope that it may prove useful to others in the future.
Many thanks,
Caz

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