Transparent app problem no mouse response in IE

I’ve got this basic drawing app that I was going to position over an area on an HTML page. However when testing with transparency on I found although the app works fine in firefox, IE tries to select the flash and won’t let you draw.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I’ve currently just tried using SWFobject to get rid of the ‘click on to activate’ thing, but that wasn’t part of the prob.

Thanks
Jon

*edit

since posting this I’ve given up on that tried putting the wmode to opaque and z-indexed it behind.

This appears to work in IE (can draw in between the text) this method doesn’t work at all on firefox so the transparent option is better for that. I found very little mention of this subject (one other forum post) so hope that helps anyone with the same idea.

If anyone has any suggestions of how to get IE to not select the flash (and then hopefully the flash in turn will respond) suggestions would be appeciated still as it only semi works the way I’d like.