Corrupt SWF output?

Hi all,
For some reason when I publish my project, the produced SWF
has strange random red or grey boxes appearing in the output. I can
preview the output in the browser and it looks fine.
This is happening on more than one project. I can partly
clear it by importing into a new project but even that is not
reliable.
I never had this sort of problem with V1. I'm currently using
V3 which seems really flaky in comparison.
Any help much appreciated as it's driving me mad.
Thanks
CD

Hi CD
I don't know if this will help or not, but I have seen quite
a few posts relating to the Red Screen scenario and the major
impact seems to be as a result of extensive usage of Full Motion
Recording, which seems to eat up available memory on playback until
the computer freezes up. The main fix, if this is the case, is to
reduce project size by creating smaller projects that daisy chain
into each other and/or to replace some of the FMR with static
screen shots.
Cheers
Andrew

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