Strumelia, using your skin and your modules on a fresh database install its working as expected, so I suspect its something store in a TEMPLATE edit somewhere in the database. Looking now.
For some reason on your site strumelia the embed local media panel is loading twice. Not sure about yours curtis as Im not sure of which site your thinking of in this case. Hopefully its the same issue, so I'll keep trying to locate it on strumelias.
not able to reproduce. When I set the skin to elastic, both the profile video player and the embeded-in-a-blog video player are black. When I set the skin to sage, both players change to be the grey one.