Creating Flex 3.5 components with Flash CS5

Is there a way to create components compatible with Flex 3.5 by using Flash CS5? Whenever I run the "Convert Symbol to Flex Component" command and then try to use the resulting .swc file in a Flex 3.5 app, I get multiple instances of the following error:
1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Matrix3D.
1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Vector3D.
Thanks in advance

Are you using 3.5 targeted for 10 or 4.x? If you moved to 4.x and are
embedding fonts, you have to set embedAsCFF=false in the @fontFace

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