Flash CS4 crashes when exporting to animated .GIF!!!!

I am running Snow Leopard and Flash CS4 10.0.2. Everytime I try to export to an animated GIF flash will crash. I can export to .swf, html, and a static .gif just fine. As soon as I check that animated box and hit publish, it crashes. This is annoying and ridiculous. Is this an issue with Flash?
At first I thought it was due to the fact that I was using actionscript for my animation. I figured the .gif didn't support that so I got rid of it, still crashed. Even just made a very simple text animation and it still would crash. This is unacceptable.
Anyone know a good SWF - animated GIF converter in the meantime?

Honestly, I am really astonished that CS4 runs under Windows 8 at all. You should get your hands on a trial version of flash cc and test if you are encountering the same problems:
if yes: then it must be related to your soundsystem (audio drivers/soundcard) or the files you try to import are non-standard/demolished
if no (flas cc imports your files but not CS4) then I would advise moving on to a specialized Windows 8.1 forum

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