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How does Facebook Sharer select Images?

I'm trying to share a video from feralmotion.com using 

http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<url to share>

The page I'm trying to share can be viewed here

It may be important to mention I am sharing flowplayer

I can properly share video's to webkit and -moz- browsers, but when I share on IE, the image never makes it to Facebook. This leaves facebooks tiny play button neatly tucked in the top left corner, in a not-so-obvious fashion.

Test it for yourself here, try in different browsers.

It may be important to mention that the facebook linter finds the image when 

http://www.feralmotion.com/share?watch=1925

is run through it.

Has anyone come across this before ??

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Add the Open Graph Meta tags to your page: /?watch=XXX

These meta tags are added to your "share" pages: /share?watch=XXX and there's no reason not to add them to your actual pages!

EDIT:
Based on the comments below, it seems that it's a bug in the sharer.php script.
P.S: The Like plugin is recommended over the sharer.php

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    This page is an example I set up with flowplayer: http://sdoyle.fbdublin.com/tests/tasks/632942.html , when you share that URL on Facebook it creates a feed story with the video player embedded – Igy Aug 25 '11 at 22:18
  • sorry. . . maybe I'm missing your point. . . all of the open graph tags are there. . . and it works like a charm across all browsers except IE... where the video is still embedded/just the image doesn't make it across to fb. – TuK Aug 25 '11 at 22:21
  • Oh sorry about that! it seems that it's a problem with the `sharer.php` script, because if you share the link on Facebook directly using IE or using the Like plugin it will work just fine. I'm not sure if Facebook is still supporting the `sharer.php` though! @Igy please confirm? – ifaour Aug 25 '11 at 22:35
  • @Igy btw, +1 for the secret FB domain :-), I didn't know that you like turtles ;-) – ifaour Aug 25 '11 at 22:38
  • If it's a reproducible bug in sharer.php, please report it and we'll triage it as normal, we no longer recommend use of sharer.php but it hasn't been complete deprecated yet either, so it should be fixed – Igy Aug 25 '11 at 22:44
  • reported it - http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=20033 – TuK Aug 26 '11 at 03:17
  • I'm experiencing the same problem. The bug-report link in the comment before me is a dead link as of now... :\ – Yuval A. Sep 23 '12 at 18:42