"free transform" gives crappy result

When I have a picture in Flash CS4 and rotate it via 'free transform' the picture gets distorted. When I do the same in Photoshop CS4 the quality stays very good. Of course Flash isn't Photoshop, but I would not expect the result to differ this much.
Am I doing somethign wrong? Or do I have to live with this?

This is mere hearsay, as I haven't hd to deal with it myself, and when I rotate an image it doesn't look any worse for wear...  In the library, right click on the image and select Properties.  In the panel that appears, check the allow smoothing option and see if that helps.

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