Common Library - won't update symbols

I am designing a series of CD labels that have common
elements. It seemed natural to have those common elements as a
graphics symbol in the common library, so that in the future a
change to those elements does not require manually editing 30
files.
But...
I can't get an imported symbol to update from the common
library AT ALL. Even manually using the "Update..." command for the
imported symbol from the library pane says it completes and then
DOES NOTHING to the symbol instance and DOES NOT CHANGE any new
instances of that symbol. It basically doesn't work at all, at
least not for the files I am using. I'm using Fireworks CS3 with
all the latest Adobe updates installed.
Is this a known bug? Am I misinterpreting what the Update
command is supposed to do? Is there some simple trick I am missing?
Here are the basic steps I'm using for testing:
- Create a document and import a common library graphic
symbol. It shows up in the library pane and says (imported).
- Drag the symbol onto the workspace to create an instance.
- Save this file as File1.
- "Save as" the file as File2 (File1 is closed and the file
is now open as File2).
- Edit the symbol in file 2 in some blatantly gauche way. Use
Save to Common LIbrary from the Library pane. This dialog requests
confirmation to overwrite the existing symbol file. Say yes.
- Save and then Close file 2.
- Open File 1. From the Library pane, select the symbol and
choose "Update..."
- Nothing happens to the symbols in file 1.. They are not
"Updated" whatsoever and remain as originally instanced, not as the
symbol that now exists in the Common Library. If I delete the
symbol and re-import it, then I do get the modified symbol... but
then thats not quite the same thing as being able to update the
symbols in place.

I think on top of the fact that Fireworks has very limited
support for sharing symbols across files, I am also running into
bugs in their limited implementation.
The Shared Library preview shows the correct version of the
symbol, but this is not the version that is dragged onto the
document. Plus the "Update..." function in the Library pane does
not appear to function at all.
Guess I will have to work around this somehow. CS3 certainly
seems to be way buggier than previous macromedia releases of
Fireworks. I'm constantly running into things that are broken, as
well as extensive memory leaks when working with very large
graphics. Fireworks has a lot of functionality, but I don't know
that I would recommend it to others, unless they are just doing
very simple things.
Here is another bug I just ran into: I directly opened the
Common Library symbol png files in Documents &
Settings/username/Application Data/Adobe/.... to edit the symbols.
The symbol editor opens fine and everything appears normal, EXCEPT
that you can't change colors on graphic objects! Very very strange
behaviour. Typical of the sort of thing I am constantly running
into with Fireworks.

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