Animation is smooth only after manually displaying image for each TimeSpan

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Go to 
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40647264/GE%20Super%20Overlay%20with%20Animation.html
2. Click the Play button. The animation will go from the 1st image (with no 
black circle) to the 5th image (with a full black circle) without showing the 3 
intervening images (1/4 circle, 1/2 circle, 3/4 circle).
3. Manually move the time slider slowly to reveal each of the 5 images.
4. Click the Play button. Now, the animation displays all 5 images as it should.

Animation should display all 5 images the first time Play is clicked. The user 
should not have to manually display each image in order for animation to work.

This occurs in the only environment where I've been able to test it: Mac OS X 
10.7.2 + Google Chrome 16.0.912.75 + Google Earth Plugin 6.1.0.5001. (I've been 
trying to test in IE under WinXP and Win7, but can't get the plug-in to work at 
all there, so I'll write up a separate report for that.)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by p...@pooch.us on 23 Jan 2012 at 3:38

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I was able to get the GE Plugin working in my Windows environments. (They're 
VMs, so I had to tweak a registry setting that allowed GE to use OpenGL instead 
of DirectX.)

The buggy behavior of the animation can be reproduced in both Win7 (64-bit) 
running IE9 and in WinXP (32-bit) running IE8.

Original comment by p...@pooch.us on 24 Jan 2012 at 3:36

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Can reproduce the behavior using the Google example on Animating Ground 
Overlays at (https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/time#example2):

1. Goto to maps.google.com
2. Switch to Earth view.
3. Enter url: 
https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/TimeSpan_example.kml
4. Click the time slider play button...

Best,
Sandy

Original comment by sandy.jo...@gmail.com on 31 May 2012 at 10:08