Flash CS4 Jpeg Quality publishing problem

Hi there I'm trying to publish a .psd or .png that animates, but when I go to change the Jpeg Quality settings to change it to anything other than the 80% it's set to it makes the animated picture disappear when viewing the swf. (I'll eventually be doing this to many animated pictures and will need to use the global jpeg quality setting)
Can anyone try and open my .fla file and see if they can change the jpeg settings and get it to work, then I'll know that I'll probably have to reinstall Flash CS4.
Thanks in advance.

I encountered the same problem when changing the quality setting in the Publish Settings from the file menu. I was able to get it to work by changing the quality setting in the library. I can't explain the problem. Have you tried, (if your project allows you) to use a PNG instead of a PSD image?

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