site critique - flash header

[catfish]

I've been working on this website and concerned about the header looking amateur. I like the simpleness of it but the client says it looks copy and pasted. I would like to have some professional opinions. Mainly about the way the header looks, especially if someone views it and it is not transparent but also the website as a whole.

http://www.catfishwebcreations.com/Accurate/index.html

[criterion9]

I'm not a fan of animations like that in a flash header. In my opinion the header would look better as a regular image without the falling leaves (especially since the leaves look like the same image copied many times with a movement animation).

[Eye for Video]

The falling leaves do look copy and paste... because ... well...that's pretty much what it is.
If you want to do the falling leaves, you should look into creating one movie clip, a leaf, which is displayed falling in random positions and sizes. That approach would be much more realistic.
There are a number of tutorials that show how to create "Fire Particles" in Flash. A single flame is distorted and moved using mathematics. One tut is available somewhere on:
www.learnflash.com
Google for the exact address. There are many others also. Change that to a leaf and play with it. It can be used for fire, leaves, snowflakes, and more. I'll attach a fire particle .fla that you can tear apart to see the very simple design and compare to the mathematically complex, and very beautiful result.
Best wishes,
Eye for Video
www.cidigitalmedia.com