mmhh.. no one so far... I just conducted an experiment. When I use the same code but with audiofiles drawn in from my other website it seems to work. I am using the <audio></audio> tags to play the mp3s in the browser's respective native player plus an <embed> tag for IE 8 and older. Could it have to do with the Ceon URI module I'm using? I added the 'media' folder to be exempt from redirection (that's where the mp3s are). Also have a jquery file in the header ... I mean.. if I can't resolve this soon I could point the mp3s to my other site... what do you think? Any suggestions on why this is not working out of Zen Cart?

P.S. to see this code in action check out my other site where the audio files work in FF, IE9, IE8 and iPhone/pads.... demo'd this with all above...
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