I found that if I make the flash document say 10 pixels wider on each side than the movie (so it creates a 10 pixel border of flash stage around the movie), the auto-hide feature for the controls works perfectly when published to an html page.

But, unfortunately I need the swf to stay the exact dimensions of the movie (which I thought was the purpose of controls that sit on top of the movie rather than below). Is there a setting somewhere or something that I can change to get auto-hide to work correctly when a user moves their mouse out? Or is there a way I can define somewhere the rollover region in the movie to be smaller?

Any help is much appreciated. I wonder how sites like metacafe and youtube achieve this without these issues?