Everybody is going to hate these "workarounds".
No problem. I plan to modularize the object and embed stuff in separate javascript files. Copy and paste. As for websites I have already designed, if any of my clients complain about MS's changes, I'll charge them to recode their sites.
As an aside, I have switched from Real Media to Flash for video presentation. With Sorenson Squeeze the quality is as good as RM or QT, the file size is very close, and there isn't the delay for the plug-in to load into memory (Flash is a very small program). Only one plug-in is necessary, and Flash is ubiquitous.
No kidding, but I wouldn't blame Microsoft for this one. After all, if they did license this technology, web designers would still have to redo their pages for anyone using other browsers anyway.
I see another approach: a DLL which looks for a certain application attempt to open an alert and simply bypasses it.