Font shift when opening PC FLA on a Mac

Hello all,
I recently switched to a Mac, only to find out that all of
the text in my old Windows FLA files has now been shifted slightly
when I open it on the Mac. I've googled and found some posts about
this issues, such as here:
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?p=720146
But I haven't seen any resolution to the problem... so I
thought I'd post here and see if anyone here has found a way to
solve it. Any idea?
Thanks!

*bump*

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> I have searched archived messages and although there
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> this, no one seemed to have any answers. So, I thought I
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> and please don't laugh!
>
> My company had a web site built back in 1998-1999. The
outside person they
> hired to do the site created a Flash animation. I do not
know what version was
> used or for sure what platform (PC or Mac). I do have
the .fla files as well as
> the .swf files to work with, but when I try to open them
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> message.
>
> "This document contains embedded objects that were
created with Microsoft
> Windows version of Flash. These embedded objects must be
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> on a Macintosh."
>
> I am trying to open the .fla files using an old Mac
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