I have a video on a popup layer.

The popup works and video is found without error using Firefox,
but IE8 will not play the video.
The placeholder shows (and the play mouseover works) but when the video is clicked on, the popup layer turns off, the play button and popup layer caught in a vicious ballet of Giant Octopus vs Mega shark. unlike Sheen, neither can win.



Code:
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="100%" height="100%" id="standAlone" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name="movie" value="index_htm_files/standAlone_omk.swf?url=http://name.com/media/song.mp4&amp;sound=true&amp;loop=true&amp;tooltip=true&amp;autoplay=false&amp;swfborder=true" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" />
<param name="menu" value="false" />
<embed src="index_htm_files/standAlone_omk.swf?url=http://name.com/media/song.mp4&amp;sound=true&amp;loop=true&amp;tooltip=true&amp;autoplay=false&amp;swfborder=true" quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="100%" height="100%" name="standAlone" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>