Watch fullscreen on an external monitor?

Hi,
I have a mid-2009 and later MBP. I am using an external display - connecting a Dell 2407WFP monitor using a DVI cable and a MiniDisplay to DVI adapter to my MBP.
I am trying to watch a flash-based video in a Safari window which I have dragged over to the external display, in FULLSCREEN mode. The flash video can be seen fullscreen, while my Chrome browser window can be seen in regular mode on my MBP. However, the moment I click anywhere on the Chrome window to type or anything, the Safari window in the external display goes from fullscreen into regular mode. Any time I type or click anywhere on my MBP, the fullscreen display becomes a regular display on the external monitor.
I tried doing this with the flash video in a Safari tab opened on the external display with other Safari windows on the MBP, but that didn't work either. I tried it with a Word document and other things on the external display, but nothing stay fullscreen on it.
Any suggestions?!?

I have the most current versions of Firefox, Safari and Chrome all installed as well as the latest version of Flash Player (as of today - 12/31/11) and I also cannot get the flash player windows to stay full screen when I click elsewhere on the main display.
The weird thing is, though, is that I can get it to work sometimes. It seems totally random and there isn't a fool-proof method to make it work every time, at least that I have found - but I can get it to do it occasionally.
I am trying to do this with NBA League Pass Broadband service. According to Adobe this is supposed to work as of v10.2, but so far it seems they haven't quite fixed it...
OSX 10.6.8, iMac 27" quad-i7, btw - if it matters.

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