Flash CS5.5 unable to import sounds and massive animation lag

So, having reached a point where I want to add sound to my animation (which is extremely laggy for no particular reason), I find myself completely unable to import sounds of any form into Flash. "Oh, crap" I say to myself, and come onto the forums looking for a solution. Apparently importing the sound into a sound editor (ie audition) and then resaving it works, except it hasn't in my case and I'm still stuck with this stupid "Couldn't import [filename]" error.
(and my animation is extremely laggy for some reason in case you hadn't realised from the hints above. Does this have something to do with the fact that I am using blurs in the animation and then animating them with tweens, or is flash cs5.5 (and 5) just not good at rendering blurs efficiently?)

In Flash, all of the animation is done at runtime, not during authoring. This means that a blur, for instance, is done when the user is looking at the movie. This is completely different from the way that video is played on a computer. All of the animation workload is on the user's processor.
If you have a normal bitmap image that you are blurring with a blur filter and then animating that bitmap on the timeline in a tween, then you are giving the processor a lot of work to do. If you import a blurred bitmap and animate that, the processor has much less work to do.
That may or may not describe the problem that you are seeing.
I have no idea what the problem is with the sound files. Can you post one of the sound files so that someone could take a look at it?

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eholz1 wrote:
> Hello Captivators,
>
> I have a problem. I call it a big problem. I am unable
to import any slides
> from one project to another.
> I have a project with 15 slides, some with audio. And I
have a similar
> project with the same number of slides.
>
> I wanted to import from project a to project b just two
slides with objects.
> The import seems to work. I get an asterisk in the title
bar, indicating the
> project has changed (added two slides with audio). I
then attempt to save this
> project (under the same name). The screen locks, I get a
permanent hourglass
> (using Windows XP on HP xw8400 workstation), and the app
goe to the "not
> responding" state. and a CTRL-ALT-Delete takes several
tries before I can kill
> the app(s). It also seems that I get two instances of
the project when I try
> to kill the app in Task Manager.
>
> Anyone seen this before???
>
> Catbandit are you there???
>
> eholz1
>
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Did you ever find a solution to this??? I have this going on and can't figure it out.. I've updated my entire computer and all Adobe CS5 applications I have.
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