Flash Builder 4 - Turn on Smart Guides?

Hello,
Simply trying to lay out content in design view with new Flash Builder 4 - but the smart guides that used to be in Flex 2 and 3 are not there??
I can't align text properly (vertically and horizontally) anymore. The guides show up but only with reference to a contaniner - not with reference to other objects (text, buttons etc)
Can anyone help!!?
thanks

Hi Leon,
Can you describe the theme-changing behavior you are seeing? Is there an error dialog about theme compilation failing? If so, it most likely has not been updated to support the CSS namespace requirements and/or it suffers from lingering Fx-rename issues. Are these themes that you may have downloaded from the web? Does switching to the wireframe theme work for you?
Please file a bug detailing the steps to reproduce your issues: http://bugs.adobe.com/flex/
Thanks,
Rob Brambley
Developer, Flash Builder

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