Adobe Flash Player Settings Dialog Box Does Not Appear

I was creating a flash mp3 recorder application today and the Adobe Flash Player Settings dialog box, which gives the user the option to allow his microphone to be streamed back to the server, would not appear. It turns out that my SWF was too small for the settings box to show up. A SWF size of no less than 214 x 137 pixels is required for the settings dialog box to appear.

I got no warning and no error. It would be nice if the window would show up at any size. A warning would also have been fine. Even just shading the window as normal would have indicated that the setting dialog box was just off screen. Instead I got nothing.