Extending flash - describing an entire scene within jsfl (for export)

Hello,
I am attempting to write an extension for flash which exports all keyframe/object/symbol data into a custom format. I have found this reference (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flash/cs/extend/index.html) to extend flash, however it does not provide an overview how the data is organized within flash. I am an experiend actionscript programmer but have little experience with Flash Professional proper - so I'm too not familiar with the structure of layers, elements, frame, symbols - etc. Does someone have a resource somewhere that has all of this summaried? Or, better yet, has anyone attempted to export an entire scene, (layers, symbols, elements and all) into a different format (kind of like swiffy, but open source of course).
Thanks!

Hi,
Yes I can send you the file if you like but after arriving back in today, and trying the many different versions I created every 15 or so minutes (as you stated), they are all doing the same thing - which makes me think it is a problem with the software on the machine I'm on?
Any ideas guys? It still won't let me export or run, or save! And recently it won't even open some of the projects claiming it 'encountered a fatal error and cannot open the project'
Any and all help is really appreciated
Andy

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