Facebook flash hiding not working on IE - facebook

I'm working on a FB canvas app using Flash with 3D graphics. I must embed my SWF with param wmode="direct".
According to FB documentation, when using wmode="direct", FB hides the flash object when displaying a popup/dialog (buy credits, chat, notifications, etc.) and after the popup close, it shows the flash again.
On Chrome and Firefox it works, but on IE, after the dialog closes I checked the flash element style and I saw that visibility=visible, but still the flash is still hidden!
I tried several approaches, all with same result:
Not using "hideFlashCallback" on FB.init (let FB do it
automatically)
Using "hideFlashCallback":
function onFlashHide(params) {
if (params.state == 'opened') {
hideFlash();
FB.Canvas.hideFlashElement(params.elem);
} else if (params.state == 'closed') {
showFlash();
FB.Canvas.showFlashElement(params.elem);
}
}
function hideFlash() {
$('#flashContent').css('visibility', 'hidden');
}
function showFlash() {
$('#flashContent').css('visibility', 'visible');
}
Thanks!
Roei
UPDATE:
Another reference to FB documentation: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/appsonfacebook/tutorial/#flash

I had the same problem with IE when calling the FB.ui functions. The Facebook dialog would open, but when closed Flash would not come back.
I found a trick which solves this. Before calling to the FB functions, use javascript to set focus to a different HTML element. After that, the Flash object became visible again when I was done with the Facebook dialog.
// IE9 has a problem where the Flash object won't regain
// focus if it has focus when the FB UI is called. To fix this,
// We'll redirect focus before the call.
var lFocus = document.getElementById('focus_target');
lFocus.focus();
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Have you tried using display: none; and display:block instead of visibility: hidden and visibility: visible? In past projects I have noticed that IE sometimes has trouble with the visibility CSS property...

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