If it helps, I just downloaded the wmplayer plugin again
from port25.technet.com/pages/windows-media-player-firefox-plugin-download.aspx

and now I get the player controls in FF and can view video with no problems

Presumably I was just using the default FF plugin before, or one that was bundled with wmplayer.
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 18:42, Reply)

thank you
when you weren't getting controls, were you still getting the video? or just the audio?
( robtoo is all out of gum, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 18:54, Reply)

I could see a the space where the video was
just as a black square, right size for the video, but no controls and no video or audio. Seems some people have had the video playing automatically, but I didn't experience that
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 18:59, Reply)