Flash CS6 publishes 10.3 swf and it validates as a Flash 12?

I have tried to publish my Flash files as 11, 11.2, 10.3 etc., and they all read as Flash Version 12 in the DoubleClick Flash Validator. When I change to output version 8 it reads as version 8.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Eric

This problem was created by Adobe. I created a custom preview utility for the Flash files we create where I work and in doing that I added code to detect what version the Flash file is published to using FlashTools.dll in a .Net app and it's reporting mostly the same thing:
10.3 = 12
11.1 = 14
11.2 = 15
What it is doing is reading the first few bytes of the .swf file, which I believe Double Click Flash Validator is probably doing the same thing, maybe with the same .dll. It's not a Double Click Flash Validator problem, it's how Adobe decided to change the version encoded in the .swf file.
From an Adobe blog post (http://blogs.adobe.com/rgalvan/2011/11/adding-fp11-support-to-flash-pro-cs5-and-cs5-5.html), the versions are out of sync. I think this is because they started adding bigger features to the published .swf but needed only smaller Flash Player updates.
Flash Player 9 = swf version 9
Flash Player 10 and 10.1 = swf version 10
Flash Player 10.2 = swf version 11
Flash Player 10.3 = swf version 12
Flash Player 11 = swf version 13

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