Editable Textareas in Flash Catalyst

Hi all,
I'm brand new to Flex and Flash Catalyst, and I'm having some major issues doing what would seem to be a very simple task. In Flash Builder, I can add an <s:textarea> to a page and get an editable textarea, but I can't seem to find any way at all to add an editable textarea to Flash Catalyst so that I can add interactivity to it.
I've spent hours pushing buttons and searching Google, and I can't seem to make this happen at all. Am I missing something? Is it just not there?
Thanks,
Adobe Noob

Hey Sumit,
In the public beta we'll be releasing with the most up to date version of the Flex SDK. There's no way to actually change the SDK in the MAX build unfortunately.
=Ryan
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