Flash Detection Page Workaround

[PunkyLZ]

We just finished redesigning a website and are doing SEO work with a company that designs trade show exhibits. The client has requested that a flash element is included tastefully into the design and I do not foresee this causing a problem. However we are running into one snag.

The client requested the use of a flash detection file that uses a metatag refresh. When you type in their URL they are using a refresh tag to point you to either the /home.html page or to the upgrade_flash.html if you are not using the latest version of flash. The snag comes in when the spiders try to index the site and of course all search engines, other than Excite and Google, can't get past the flash detection page. We have included a disallow this page in the robots.txt tag, but the spiders do not seem to obey.

Any suggestions on how to handle this? If you have any examples of sites that have the refresh/redirect I would appreciate the link.

I posted this question in the Flash area, but have not had any responses so thought I would try here.

Thanks!