Flash 9 Text Not Properly Anti-Aliased In Flash 10

I use Flash CS3 to author .swfs for Flash Player 9. recently
i noticed that Flash 10 is not displaying the anti-aliased text
from Flash 9 content correctly.
See image (link:
http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/ww175/chunk1978/Picture3.png
). The above image is Flash 9 text playing in Flash 10. The bottom
image is Flash 9 text playing in Flash 9. The removal of the fine
coloring makes the text much sharper looking. It's not ideal,
especially for smaller text of size 10 and below.
Is there anyway i can create a Flash 10 file using Flash CS3?
I've tried using the trial version of Flash CS4 to do this,
but it really doesn't play nicely with my current CS3 project. LOTS
of "missing fonts" as well as the working stage not rendering
correctly in the program. I'd rather avoid CS4 all together as it
seems littered with issues, and i'm in no position to start from
scratch.
any help would be very appreciated.

Have you checked the font?
Are they the same fonts in Word and Pages?
Some applications maintain their own font folders.
There is also a possibility of font clashes, a problem with OSX having dfonts, ttf and sometimes otf fonts all with the same name. OSX is a bit of a mess with font management (as well as color management).
Peter

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