Thanks for the tip. When the issue happened this morning I tried pausing right after I hit play, but the downloading just doesn't start. I can hit play/pause over and over and nothing happens at all.

I'm pretty sure that this is a bug with the player or the page since the only way I can get the video to play is to completely refresh the page.

While the issue was occurring this morning, I opened a new browser session and went to the same URL and mysteriously the video started playing without a problem. I had one page loaded in IE 8 that wouldn't play at all, and the same page loaded in a different browser session (still IE 8) that had no problems.

Anyone have any other thoughts on this?