Creating universal app using flash cs5

Hi,
I'm using Flash CS5 and I wanted to create an universal app (iphone + ipad).
Then I click the "iphone IOS settings" there is no device menu, so I can't choose the desired devices..
I dont know why the device menu has disappeared?
I saw on several video tutorials, that you can simply choose the desired device.
But then I look at my own project and I click the "iphone IOS settings", I cant find any "device" menu by the "general" tab.
Does anybody know how I can resolve that problem?

The iPad support was added later. Get the 11.02 updater here:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/downloads.html#flashCS5

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