Flash making rotated images crunchy

greetings Flash gurus,
anytime i rotate a bitmap image, it gets VERY crunchy. the
edges are especially noticeable (although it is clear that the
entire image gets affected). this happens even with high quality
mode set for the resulting swf. the resulting bitmap looks like it
has been sent back to to 1990, rotated by some cheap process, and
then returned to 2008. :( seriously, is Flash no better at
interpolating images than this ?
(yes i know that Flash was originally designed as a vector
engine (I am an old Flash user getting back into it) ... but the
image handling looks no better than when i first used images with
Flash back in the day)
i am really hoping that someone here can tell me how to
improve this image rotation/scaling issue -- please tell me there
is a setting somewhere that allows me to turn on "high(er) quality"
bitmap interpolation... an entire project depends on this !
thank you very much in advance.

Hi Dave, thanks for your input.
(what follows is not addressed to you, but rather to Adobe,
hopefully for the benefit of the Flash community at large... )
with all of the other feature additions and optimizations
that Flash has had over the last 4-5 years (video support, image
filters, actionscript 2 & 3, data remoting, etc.) it just
surprises me that this has not yet been addressed. it is SO
basic...
in fact, smooth bitmap interpolation is one of the most basic
visual requirements that any pixel-conscious developer (or viewer)
would expect. YES it impacts performace, but give the developer the
OPTION of choosing between (or balancing) performance and
smoothness. (Adobe are you listening?)
right now my test anim (with crunchy bitmaps) runs
super-smoothly up to 100 fps (the bitmaps are quite small). it
would be perfectly OK if it only played back at 30 or even 20 fps
but *with* smoothly interpolated (rotated) bitmaps.
if Adobe hasn't added this kind of optimization in by now, i
hope they realize what an eyesore it is and implement a modern
interpolation solution sooner rather than later.

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