Flash cs6 debugger won't stop on breakpoints - productivity killer bug

hey all
help me before i punch the screen out of frustration!!!
Flash cs6 says "Breakpoint not set; No executable code at..." and won't stop at the breakpoint although i checked everything (believe me i did). I also googled for answers.
This is a bug since it comes and goes randomly (mostly comes, rarly goes).
The actionscript side on my project is very large - so you may not be able to reproduce this yourself. (i suspect this is something to do with a lot of actionscript, memory stuff - like code completion problems).
Is there anyway to clear some kind of FLA metadata that might hold the debugging info?
thank you!!!

Hi Amy, thanks for showing concern. No, there were no such scenario with my SWF since I had created a new AIR type of project with Flash CS6 installed. I don't know how really we can explain this problem (debugging) with a newly installed software; but simply the debugger never worked with the installation, so I just removed and moved to MacOS where it was working at least.
I am not sure even if the Flash CS has some dependencies - if I consider its the issue with my PC (installation).

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[svn] 4082: the AS3 debugger wasn' t stopping at breakpoints in frame scripts that

Revision: 4082
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-11-12 07:45:21 -0800 (Wed, 12 Nov 2008)
Log Message:
the AS3 debugger wasn't stopping at breakpoints in frame scripts that
contain include statements
we use the qualified error origin (in Context) for frame script module
name mapping, and when the CodeGenerator processes IncludeDirectiveNodes,
it resets the Emitter's origin, but was using Context.getErrorOrigin
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Bugs: authoring bugbase 198885
Reviewer: Erik Tierney
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flex/sdk/trunk/modules/asc/src/java/macromedia/asc/semantics/CodeGenerator.java

Revision: 4082
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-11-12 07:45:21 -0800 (Wed, 12 Nov 2008)
Log Message:
the AS3 debugger wasn't stopping at breakpoints in frame scripts that
contain include statements
we use the qualified error origin (in Context) for frame script module
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Bugs: authoring bugbase 198885
Reviewer: Erik Tierney
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/modules/asc/src/java/macromedia/asc/semantics/CodeGenerator.java

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