I'm guessing you used different states for the explosion, so for example states 4-5 are opening and state 6 is it going ka-boom. If so play around with the amount of activation's/clicks it needs.
You can't use a different hotels badge imaging link... it generates a unique image when a badge is created/edited. The link will most likely be YOUR.URL/swf/c_images/Badgeparts/generated/BADGECODE.gif
Put it on the background_left image and he's sorted. - However this might actually be more difficult than just doing it the normal way due to people using different screen resolutions.
What are you currently using. Check the client/config see if there's a place to set homeroom. It could be that your cms is changing their homeroom just before they load the client.
Just seen that you're using brain and it does exactly that... goto your config and comment out the homeroom part.