Work around for Z-index and Flash movies

Having trouble with layering your elements when a Flash movie is involved?
I have run into this CSS issue a couple times and always need to look it up. Recently, I was working on a project for Balmoral Golf Club in Fishers, IN. They have a full Flash site, and it is not the greatest (no worries -- I've told them this also, but they don't have enough budget right now to update the site). Even though they cannot do a full redesign, they need a couple small updates. Unfortunately though, they cannot provide the most recent Flash source files. What to do? My idea was to create a div that would overlap the Flash movie and display a box above the swf player.

I set up my z-indexes as I normally would, but something didn't work. The Flash movie would not go below the box regardless of my position or z-index values...

So, I search around again and found a good reference that reminded me that I needed to add a "wmode" parameter and set it to "transparent". Like this:

My final code was simple and looked like this:
CSS: div#news { position: absolute; top: 60px; right: 15px; z-index: 4; } div#flash { z-index: 1; }
HTML: Box that should appear above flash movie. <div id="news"><h2>Elevate your golf game at the Balmoral Golf Club</h2><p><b>Join us for a 2009 Membership Open House</b></p><br /> <p>Saturday, October 11, 2008<br /> 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.<br /> Tour the club via golf cart</p><p>Special membership incentives and the remainder of the 2008 golf season. egister for drawing for Bob Hope Chrysler Classic golf bag.</p><p class="contact">For more information contact 317-557-5765.</p></div>
Flash movie code.
 <div id="flash"><script type="text/javascript">AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0','width','900','height','580','id','FLVPlayer','src','balmoral_movie_mov4b','flashvars','&MM_ComponentVersion=1&skinName=Clear_Skin_1&streamName=video/sequence05&autoPlay=false&autoRewind=false','quality','high','scale','noscale','wmode','transparent','name','FLVPlayer','salign','lt','pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','balmoral_movie_mov4b' ); //end AC code</script><noscript><img src="http://www.blogger.comhttp://img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; height: 580px; width: 900px; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="FLVPlayer" data-original-id="FLVPlayer" />Thank you for visiting the Balmoral Golf Club website! In order to view this site, you will need to download the current Flash Player. Thank You!</noscript></div>

And the file page looked like this below.
Hope someone finds this info helpful!