Fonts Mangled In Flash CC

I just installed Flash CC eager to try out the features and quickly discovered that any fla that I opened that uses Library embedded fonts completely looks mangled, the font is wrong, kerning gets screwed up, text randomly is cut off. Very dissapointing. Is this something that might get fixed soon.

Here is a quick example:
SWF exported using CS6:
http://terminalvelocity.ca/temp/flashCC/a.png
SWF exported using CC
http://terminalvelocity.ca/temp/flashCC/b.png
(this example only really shows a line spacing problem)
Here is also an example of one of my project FLAs which reveals more issues such as the wrong font variant being used (non bold) and the "height" property of the textfield being wrong which is causing the buttons to misdraw as being too tall (and the input elements being too short)
CS6:
http://terminalvelocity.ca/temp/flashCC/c.png
CC:
http://terminalvelocity.ca/temp/flashCC/d.png
You can download my test FLA here:
http://terminalvelocity.ca/temp/flashCC/test.fla
The font problems seem prevailent in any FLA I open that uses embedded fonts. I am on a Mac running the latest version of Mountain Lion. I suspect this may be caused by a few default params changing in the TextFormat object perhaps? Though if so I won't be happy if I have to go back through every text field in every FLA in order to use the CC version of Flash.

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