Embedding externals resources in SWF

Here what I’m tying to do. I have an SWF files exported from Indesign CS5 with animation and some videos/sounds. Their is no options inside InDesign to automatically embedding theses resources when creating the SFW. So when I import the SWF in Catalyst and play it either as SWF or AIR all the video is missing and the sound also. I have read one FAQ ( http://bit.ly/a7Sk8H ) about that in the forum but the solutions is outdated (was written for the beta in 2009) and does not works.
So, how can we make FC to recognize the externals resources and be able to play them when exported to SWF or AIR?
Thanks
Jean-Claude

Hi Ian...
Ok, that works fine when copying the folders created by InDesign that is called ([Whatever] Resources) at the same level of the main.swf in the bin-ebug folder. This work fine when using Run Project to preview the swf from Catalyst itself. But When Publishing, none of the assets is copied to the "run-local" or "deploy-to-web" folder. So we need to manually copy the resources again.
What I was interested in was to build an AIR app out of Catalyst, but the video/sounds does not seems to be included in the AIr application. At least they do not play in the application.
If I do a right click on the AIR application, and take a look inside the package, in the Contents > Resources folder, I can see the video and sound file in two places (1) Floating at inside the Resources folder and also (2) Inside the assets > medias folder
So a few question remain.
(1) Why does I have a duplicate of the files inside the air app?
(2) Why it is not working (even if I manually place them manually?
Thanks for your help!
Jean-Claude

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UserInterface.swf
The third .swf file is UserInterface.swf. Fonts are NOT embedded in this file. They are not supposed to be. The project has many .swf files and they should all be using the fonts embedded in Fonts.swf.
On the main timeline of UserInterface, it calls it's own version of traceEmbeddedFonts(), which again confirms that Franklin Gothic Demi is embedded.
Inside UserInterface is a TextField we'll call mMainTextField, with some text, say "Main Menu". The font is "Franklin Gothic Demi", the anti-alias style is 'use device fonts.' I have tried other anti-alias styles as well.
As it turns out, UserInterface.swf is 'embedding' Franklin Gothic Demi, with a character set of a big fat 0 characters. This is taking precedence over the Franklin Gothic Demi font embedded from Fonts.swf. I can side-step this problem by setting mMainTextField to use some other Font while publishing and then using actionscript to change it back to Franklin Gothic Demi when the project is running, but that's not a solution that is friendly to the artists.
In essence, the question is simple: Why is Flash Embedding and Registering fonts with character sets of size 0, despite the fact that nowhere in UserInterface.swf is there a request to embed fonts, and how do I prevent it from doing so?
If anyone who sees this has already encountered and solved this problem and shares the solution with me, you will be my favorite person .
Thanks!
-J

You know, I think its just a bug inside Flash Builder Burrito. When I run my app through the emulator it doesn't display correctly but when I run it on my phone it works as it should.

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