Don't you hate it how you build something in Flash and the view it in a browser, it runs about 10 times slower? Last night I was messing around with some settings in the HTML to try to figure out if anything would have an effect on performance. And lo and behold, if I set WMODE to "opaque" or "transparent", my Flash would run significantly faster. Counterintuitive, but there you go ... more investigation to follow ...