Trouble with YouTube and Firefox

I’ve been trying to embed YouTube videos in my WordPress blog (like all sorts of people) hosted on Dreamhost. I turned of the WYSIWIG editor and pasted in the YouTube code. This worked, giving a fine playback in IE and Opera, but just a frozen, unclickable image in Firefox. I read through the help suggestions and changed the YouTube code in several ways to try and get it to work, but no joy. I downloaded Viper007Bond’s plugin and still the same problem. I updated my Flash player and made sure I was running with the most current version of Firefox and nothing is making a difference. It works fine in IE and Opera, but not on Firefox (at least, not on MY Firefox).

Something I did notice, though. To get the video to play in IE, you have to double click the screen. The first click seems to activate the player space so you can then click on the playback controls and watch the video. In opera, clicking on the player space first opens a new tab linking directly to the YouTube video page. A second click on the original tab’s player space will then start the video in the original tab. I’ve searched the code both that I’ve pasted in and (as much as I as a non-programmer could) in the plugin to see if there was some sort of link enclosing thing going on, but I couldn’t see anything. I’ve also noticed on Firefox that when I pull up my page, the status bar in the lower left corner shows, “Read sjl-static8.sjl.youtube.com”.

Does anyone have any idea what’s going on here?