Automated Flash testing

My company has begn investigating automated testing solutions
for our products. For the ASPX, XML, and HTML, parts of our
products, that's obviously not an issue. But most of our content is
presented as SWFs, and now we're rebuilding our entire framework in
Flash as well. We have not been able to find a method for
auto-testing the Flash we're producing, but we really need to find
one (for load testing as well).
Any insights?

did you ever find a solution, where in the same boat and ive
searched the web all week and keep coming up empty.
Can anyway give any pointers into how we can test, i know
products like asunit will help with the code, but is there anything
useful that will help us do user testing, as currently our testers
need to click through every option in the flash application, which
takes hours.
Ive also been thinking of changing it all over to flex, as
this seems to have a little bit more on the testing side any
thoughts?
David

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