Akamai Flash Stream: pause then play causes lag

Hello,

I'm using an Akamai server to stream my flash video content.

I'm using Flash Professional 8 and the FLVPlayback component.

Mostly everything is fine but...

...if I press pause then play during playback, the video remains paused but the sound resumes. Then the video takes anything from a split second to several seconds to unfreeze and then resumes in sync with the sound.

Does anyone know how to fix this, please? Is it even fixable?

So far I have tried:

using another flv source encoded by different folks on different tech (the same thing happens)

Thanks a million

S.