Embeded font in swf is giving error

i am trying like crazy to embed one more font into a swf for
my application to access. What kills me is the first font in my css
has no problems. The second one does have issues. I am sure they
are added to the swf in the same way:
- made a text field,
-embeded the font to the field
- typed in some stuff to be sure it works when compiling the
font.swf
-added font to Library
-gave class names (Font1,AA)
the errors i get are:
-font 'AA' with normal weight and regular style not found
-Unable to transcode fnt/CiscoFonts.swf.
btw, AA is just simply Arial

well...not sure what that is about, but i simply embeded the
trouble font into a new swf and changed fonts.swf to
extrafont.swf...and it worked.
Flex is too unpredictable

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Revision: 1384
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-04-24 07:54:58 -0700 (Thu, 24 Apr 2008)
Log Message:
Splitting DefineFont into the various DefineFont 1, 2, 3, etc SWF tag formats but retaining a common base DefineFont class so that embedded fonts are still retained as symbols for the SWF dictionary no matter what version of the SWF tag is used.
Also improving [Embed] so that it can recognize .TTC files as assets (previously these were only recognized through CSS @font-face rules).
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flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/media/AbstractTranscoder.java
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/media/FontTranscoder.java
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