How easy is Flash to pick up?

My firm has a Flash site built by a web designer. I'm tired of trying to get him to do the updates that we need--we have to nag and nag the guy. It would be so much easier if we could do the updates in-house. We use Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Acrobat all the time; some of the people here are really proficient. Given this knowledge, how easy would it be to learn enough Flash to be able to do the updates ourselves? Is it very "Adobe-like?" If it's likely to be a problem, though, we may change the site over to a CMS platform (I'd rather not).
Any opinions?

If you have someone proficient in programming and animation, then you might have a shot at doing the updates yourself without too much of a learning curve. I would not say that Flash is Adobe-like since it is not a native-born Adobe product. You might try finding someone else to do your updates for you. If the person you go to now is not customer-friendly, I'd be willing to bet there are p[lenty of folks out there that are.
If you have Flash, then it is worht some play time to see what you or yours can do to get up to speed with it... the only problem with getting up to speed with it is that it can be an unending chase.
I'd like to say that Flash is easy to pick up, but then I have to remember how hard it was to get my father to be able to use a mouse.

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