GIF workaround

Hi,
I'm searching a workaround to make an animation made in flash into an animated GIF.
Now here is the challange, I need the animation in photoshop, since photoshop can export GIF in a way higher quality then flash does, and it does not contain text rendering issues. (Try exporting a text in flash to gif).
I can't export to MOV with flash, flash can't export to anything without massible pixelised qualityloss...
Flash and Photoshop are made by the same company, why can't they communicate better?
Is there a workaround to open my flash animation (any format, as long as I have my quality) into photoshop to make a nice gif of it?
Thank you in advance,
CX

I know I can export gif from flash.
There is huge quality loss doing that, and I'm not just complaining about the restriction to 256 colors, because I've seen photoshop pull it off way better.
Compare these;
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/9858/rpg.gif
http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/2406/rpg.swf
My problem is to get an animation from flash to photoshop without massive quality loss, so PS can do it properly.

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