Fonts missing in Flash CS4 OSX

Why is it that I see just the basic fonts in Flash and yet in InDesign, PhotoShop and Fireworks I see all the fonts that I have loaded? I have cleaned the font caches with Font Nuke and restarted the whole system and still not showing up.

A bit of additional information... The Myriad font is a True
Type. It was installed under C:\Program Files\Common
Files\Adobe\Fonts so I have installed it under C:\Windows\Fonts and
restarted Flash, however it still doesn't show up?

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