sIFR 2.0.5 upgrading
Freemotion uses a cool little web-addon called sIFR. sIFR is a text replacement utility that will take normal text, and transform it into flash. This way you can style the site and have it look like you coded it without banking on the end user having your same fonts. Good idea in theory, not so useful if you just updated your flash player to version 9, 115 release. Now if you started running sIFR on version 2.0.5, you should be fine, if not well you're in for a slight headache.
The best method to get your site fixed is as follows.
1 - Get your original font, or head to somewhere like daFont and download a suitable replacement font.
2 - Contact your friend flash-master (Erik in our case) and give him your font files.
3 - Do this (straight from their documentation) ; "To export your new typeface, open the sifr.fla file (which is included in sIFR-2.0.5.zip) in Flash Professional, and double-click the invisible textbox in the middle of the stage. If the "Properties" palette is not already visible, open it by selecting "Window > Properties", and select which font you'd like to use from the drop down menu. If you select a TrueType font, you can also create bold and italic styles for your font by clicking on the "I" or "B" buttons."
4 - Take the new files that Erik gives you (should be something like FONTNAME.swf) and place them in your project folder with the new .js files. In theory, you should now be up and working!
This problem only exists for the 2.x sIFR, however since 3 is beta, you may be better off just patching your existing copy. sIFR 3 does look promising, but they seemed to have changed the structure of the product quite a bit. This whole mess points back at adobe who is changing things up in their actionscript handling. This may be security related, or it may be that they are gearing up for Flex 4.
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