Alright I'm building this template engine in Flash 8 Professional. It basically gets images from a user's account and they can place the images into the loaded template and manipulate them from there. Now there are a couple problems. For some reason in FireFox none of the filters ever show up. The drop shadows don't work and I can't get my Desaturate (black & white) filter to work. In IE the drop shadows work, but the desaturate filter only works the first time, if that. Both browsers are running the Flash 9 player.

What am I doing wrong that a simple thing like filters aren't working as they should?