Customizing DataGrid component in Flash CS3 using AS3

Can anyone please explain how to customize the DataGrid
component in Flash CS3 using AS3???
How do you remove/change the grid lines for the rows and
colums?
How do you remove/change the border?
My day has been lost searching for this answer. Flash
Documentation is worthless and Google finds nothing with regards to
AS3. ASDGRH.
Thanks in advance,
TedWeb

I hope you've found a resolution to this by now, but I just noticed the discussion title when posting a captioning issue.
In a nutshell, create a listener on your FLVPlayback module with a VideoEvent.SKIN_LOADED event. You'll also need to set the showCaptions in your FLVPlaybackCaptioning object to true. Apparently, if the captions are set to false when the player object loads the skin, the captions aren't recognized and your captions toggle will require an extra click to activate the captions.
Here's the link to another discussion on the same topic with all of the details:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402452.html
Also, have you had any issues with the caption button in the FLVPlayback skin not showing up? That's my current issue. Here's the discussion for it:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/796423?tstart=0

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> if anyone is using Flash CS3, try creating a flash
movie, using the FLVPlayer
> component to play an flv video and make it an executable
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>
>
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first (for testing
> purposes)
> 3. before the projector reaches the frame with the
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>
>
observed behaviour:
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black until the
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>
>
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>
>
remarks:
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>
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Urami
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