I tend to use SwfObject for my Flash / HTML integration needs.  It handles the "click to activate" issue with I.E., it's 2 lines of script, and it isolates me from the <object> && <embed> ickiness of flash.  Although I did get around the "click to activate" anomaly, I could no longer login to the site.  I was getting a "Object Expected" JavaScript error in Login.aspx.

There must be some name collision in the variables that was overwriting an expected value or such -- I switched to the DHTML method (thanks Dax!)  and everything works swimmingly.

tags: DasBlog, javascript, flash