Flash JPG compression is terrible. Can I use Photoshop JPG compression with transparency?

Flash seems to do a far worse job of JPG compression for some reason. A picture at JPG 80 can look great in Photoshop but completely blocky in Flash. So I prefer to JPG compress in Photoshop and then just retain that compression when importing to Flash.
However this doesn't work when I need the image to have transparency. In this case I save as PNG-24 in Photoshop and then let Flash do the JPG compression. But now the image looks terrible unless I go for JPG 90 or above.
Is there some way to get the best of both worlds? Good quality JPG compression plus transparency?

Well first off, .jpg does not have transparency. So no, you can't have
Good quality JPG compression plus transparency?
For that you'll need a .png or a .gif.
I agree with Rob, never do any compression or resizing of images in Flash .Prepare the image of the correct file type and exact physical dimensions (as it will be used in Flash) before importing into Flash... use PhotoShop or whatever.
There is no free lunch... If your image is physically very large 1000+ x 1000+.... and you want high quality, it's going to be a pretty large file.
Since we have no examples of what size you think is too large, what quality is good/bad, or what the image dimensions are... we can only offer limited advice.
Correctly designing the project from the start is also very important. you might not be able to use a 1680 x 700 background image (too large a file), so you might look into using a much small image and tiling, that is repeating the same small image over and over... for example. So besides "image compression", there are design methods that can help reduce the final Flash file size.
Best wishes,
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