looks like it's supposed to be a mask layer.

You'll have to find it, and right click on the layer containing this rectangle, and check mask.

That is unless it was dynamically created, then it's hard to say without seeing what's going on. Did you do this from scratch, or was it something you inherited from somebody else?

Just a wild guess, is there a chance that it comes from the CSS Stylesheet that the html document points to?

Well, I know it is not the CSS as the phantom object is inside the swf file. I think it has to do with the transition effect that occurs each time you click on a menu tab. That is why it doesn't appear until after a tab is clicked. So I have been looking around the scripts in those animations and have found nothing. I have another guy looking at the source file to see what he can find.

This was built from a template they bought some time ago. Funny thing how favors/bartering work in the business world.

j razz

I'm 99.9999% sure it's a mask, that for some reason is now showing.

Maybe you accidentally clicked on a layer and unmasked it?

Try exporting for a different version of a player ( 6,7,8 ). Maybe it's an older .flv that has problems if you export to flash9, and it was originally written for flash 7, could be that too.

Look for actions on buttons, what does it say, where does it send the timeline after you click on it, then locate that, and in there you should be able to find this blue rectangle.

Hmm. All that sounds reasonable. Some other observations...

As deusx says, it occurs with the wipe transition. It also seems to be under the wipe, because it disappears everywhere the wipe is yet stays visible over on the left where the wipe doesn't cover it.

If you watch it during the wipe, it seems like it's affected by the same effect that brightens the text, even in that area on the left that the wipe doesn't cover. In fact, the first

It doesn't appear after the very first wipe that happens when the page loads, which makes me think it's not part of the wipe MC. Flash has a bunch of ways to search for things in the file so you might try the various find or movie explorer tools. More likely it's part of the text area because it shares the same effect.

Looks like a mask made visible, don't see a reason for it to be there, there's probably some bit of code running when the page first loads that doesn't run when the buttons are pressed or the text areas are reloaded. if the text areas are separate swfs maybe I'd back one up and put an empty swf of the same name in it's place just to try to narrow it down.

Rob