The thing that I find truly bizarre about some of this is that it contravenes one of the most accepted points about personal and commercial web page design - even post-broadband - and it's bad practice to have a big chunk of Flash as the intro to a site and that if you must do, then have a HTML-driven means of navigating away from that page.

Some people's MySpace pages seem to be the equivalent of having several Flash intros and no real way of navigating away. People suggesting that I can 'turn it off' are either missing the point or not understanding it in the first place.