Arabic Font Problem

Hello,
I've been told by my client that my arab text is not
rendering correctly. The problem occurs where an incorrect 'alef'
appears next to a 'lam'. Now I'm not an arab speaker or reader
unfortunately, so I really don't understand exactly what this
means, but its incorrect. I've had a good look at my character
settings, and I'm not seeing any extra properties that I can set to
correct this. An extract of my code is below that relates to
character format.
charFormat.color = fontColorIs;
charFormat.fontFamily = fontIs;
charFormat.fontSize = fontSizeIs;
charFormat.locale = "ar";
charFormat.ligatureLevel = LigatureLevel.EXOTIC;
charFormat.lineHeight = "160%";
charFormat.fontLookup = FontLookup.EMBEDDED_CFF;
charFormat.kerning = Kerning.ON;
paraFormat.textAlign = TextAlign.RIGHT;
paraFormat.direction = "rtl";
I've also put a some screen shots of the problem and the font
online at
http://www.kenmacleod.com.au/adobe
- these 2 images were from the client and explain the issue.
Adobe Arabic is working and rendering correctly, so I'm
presuming that it is a font issue, and the font I'm trying to make
work, just can't work with Flash even though its an OTF.
I am wondering if maybe I've missed something. It doesn't
appear to be a embedding issue either as I'm embedding the entire
font via Gumbo.
If anyone has had luck with other Arabic fonts rendering
correctly please let me know what they are.
Thanks, Ken.

Just as a follow up to this problem if anyone else is
experiencing something similar. We ended up contacting the actual
developers of the Arabic font (
http://www.grapheast.com).
They described it as a Unicode issue and said they would have to
update their font, which they promptly did in about an hour and
fortunately for us, it worked straight up.
http://www.brashbrands.com/ar/
We had some unexpected issues with the Chinese version of the
site too, I didn't do any research on font file sizes, but with the
chinese language having so many characters, the font files seemed
to vary from about 7MB to 15MB. Once squashed into a swf via Gumbo,
the smallest versions were around the 4MB mark, but these were
dropping characters all over the place. The 15MB looked great, but
only came down to about 10MB, which is obviously way to big to
embed. We tried just using 'sans' but some system fonts were
dropping characters also, especially when we needed chinese
characters next to punctuation. The result ended up being using a
program called Fondu and extracting the mac system font Hei.dfont.
The font size of the Gumbo swf ended up as 3MB and it worked
perfectly. Details of the how to with Fondu are
http://aralbalkan.com/1897
(thanks Aral Balkan and Fondu).
http://www.brashbrands.com/zh/

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