Focus issues in IE

I am seeing a really bizarre issue when programatically setting focus to the flash control in IE. I am able to set focus to it on page load. However, certain keystrokes are passed to the flash control, but keystrokes related to page navigation are being eaten up by IE. For example, you can type your name into the input field, but the backspace and tab keys are being eaten up by IE and not making it to the flash control.

Has anyone else seen a similar issue? If not, can you maybe post how you are setting focus to the activex control? I am trying to follow the guidelines at this MSDN article but am still seeing the same issue: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537508.aspx

BTW, I am testing in IE6.

Thanks in advance