.SWF Z-Index tip of the day

If your .swf is playing/sitting/hanging out on top of all your DHTML elements, (when truthfully, it should be under), try the following fix:

change the WMODE parameter to “opaque” or “transparent”. This will prevent the .swf from sitting on top, and now you can “adjust the layering of the movie within the other layers of the HTML document”.

In between your < script> tags:

var flashvars = { };
var params = {
    menu: "false",
    scale: "noScale",
    allowFullscreen: "true",
    allowScriptAccess: "always",
    bgcolor: "",
    wmode: "opaque"
};
var attributes = {
    id:"PG"
};
swfobject.embedSWF(
    "filename.swf",
    "altContent", "1024px", "650px", "10.0.0",
    "expressInstall.swf",
    flashvars, params, attributes);

(Source: kb2.adobe.com)