I got this working in FF and IE. However, when in FF, the links are not selectable. I did not solve this, but worked around it by telling the width and height to be 1024 by 250 and setting the left and top to 0px so that the flash file hugs the top and left and does not overlay my links.
The only drawback to this is that my logo used to be a link and went to the forumhome page and now it does not work in FF. Still , this is usable in it's current state as my forum is using a fish theme.
http://www.hidingplace.com/vbb350/index.php
Good job