Well, you have now jQuery, so I can't test it.
I will not promise to see after the "controls issue", because I really can't consider that an issue. Please understand, I/we have not the time to fullfill the "demands" of a single users (no one else really complained till now). Your visitors just have to hover over basically the whole browser window to see the controls (assuming that the majority of windows users use most of the time full screen mode, this would likely often happen.)
Regarding the IE display problem. that is something we hopefully solve sometime. Might be or not be that the control hover is related or not.