Finished my first Flash game on iPhone

Hello!
This little message to share my first game development experience with cs5.
Codename: Boost your Brain
http://blog.tweenpix.net/2009/11/11/boost-your-brain-flash-game-on-iphone
That was a fun experience and I’m looking forward to start a new project now.
Any feedback is welcome.

I'm a pre-release customersso i have access to latest beta of Flash CS5
but I still have problems with certificates and flash give me a UNKNOW ERROR when I try to pubblish for iPhone!!
please help!
I used the p12 certificate,
the mobileprovisioning file
and everything else
but still get this error?
I'm On MAC
what can be the problem?
it is possiible to get iphone IPA compiling with these betas?
thank you!

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