I finally moved from XP to Windows 7 about a month or so ago, which comes with IE 8 ... I recently was checking out some Flash games, and I keep running into problems with keyboard-controlled games.

It doesn't seem to matter if its WASD or cursor keys, I get the problem where characters end up moving by themselves, like key releases aren't being detected.

Here's one game where this happens to me, and it makes the game unplayable (sorry MikeD):
http://www.deusx.com/pumpkinboy/

In Firefox I don't get the problem. He's using SWFobject. On Mochi's site, they are also using SWFobject. Could it be WMODE?