Combining AS2 animation in AS3 CP4 project

I realize this is a no-no, and the message told me so in CP4, but I was able to get an AS2 built flash animation to work and publish in an AS3 CP project. The message, if I remember right, was 'you may experience unexpected results' or something to that effect. My question is: if I can get them to work as animated intros to the modules running as standalones, why can't I get them to work in an Aggreagtor file? What happens when aggreagted is that the flash intros simple bog down. They start out playing correctly the first time, but as you navigate the TOC the animated intro starts playing slower and slower. It's as if the previous version are still playing the in the background and just run out of memory/cache or something.
What I'm wondering is, could the problem be that the animations just simply aren't stopping? If so, is it possible to insert a command to stop?
Anyone have any ideas?
JT

I was able to get them to play 'satisfactorily' in CP 4 in single .swf- Not aggreagated. The larger problem was in Aggreagator. I had huge issues with aggregator, and adobe told me to upgrade to CP5 to solve that problem. Not sure that probelm is solved because now I have even more problems with the existing files-captions, graphics not displaying correctly. So for the time being, this AS2 AS3 issue is on the sidelines.
If I ever get to that oint again, I'll see If I can send a link.
Thanks!
JT

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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: load AS2 swf into AS3 swf problem
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