Dynamic Text and Resizing Images Inside

Hello.
FYI: I'm following the Flash Blogger tutorials listed on
http://www.indextwo.net with
Flash 8.
I've noticed that everything works wonderfully as far as
bringing the blog content into the dynamic text field; however, my
only problem at the moment is while Blogger will automatically
resize my images, so it doesn't mess up the current template in
html, but of course, Flash does not (out of the box).
I need a way to define the width & height of the images in
the text field to fit inside the dynamic text field they're in.
As far as I can tell, the tutorials listed on that site use an
alternate method and don't actually resize them. They just make a
link to them.
Lastly, I thought about using CSS in Flash to adjust the img
size, but from what I gather there are very few items at my
disposal.
Does anyone have a solution?
Thank you.

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