Keith Lofstrom wrote on Monday 29-Jun-2009 (02:37:12):
> Summary: Flashplayer 10 sucks. Use Flashplayer 9. 
> [...]
> To make a long story short, the problem turned out to be that the 
> Ubuntu laptop was running Adobe Flash Plugin 9 and the SL5 laptop 
> was running the latest and allegedly greatest Flash Plugin 10. 
> When I downgraded the SL5 laptop to version 9 (save those old RPMs, 
> kiddies, they aren't available on line anymore!) the animation sped 
> up from 36 to 10.8 seconds, slightly faster than the Ubuntu machine. 

Just FYI, the RPMs may not be available on-line anymore, but inside
the ZIP archive "fp9_archive.zip" found under "Archived Flash Players"
on the Adobe web site here:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14266.html

there are files "flashplayer9r###_linux.tar.gz" where version "###"
is one of 31, 115, 124, 151, 152, or 159. (It may be worth noting the
fast version 9 results Keith reported were with version 9r124, so use
later releases at your own risk :-)

Hope this helps,

    -- Jim

P.S.  Might anyone know of an on-line source for Flash v9r### RPMs ?