Importing PNG in CS5.5 used to also auto-create a symbol, this is switched off in CS6

I regularly need to import lots and lots of screenshot (.PNG) files into Flash and then animate them. In CS5.5 it was much eased by the feature which automatically created a symbol for each PNG file. I could then easily manipulate the symbols in Flash.
However, in CS6 this auto creation of symbols seems to have disappeared. Please, I need this feature - it saves me ages. Can anyone out there tell me how to turn it back on.
Thanks
John

I am on a PC... when I first got my hands on CS5.5 (subscription plan) I think I remember it was automatically creating symbols out of images that I imported. While my preference would be to not do that, I do not remember doing anything to change it. When I import images now, the symbols are no longer created, so it might have been an update that changed it to be like every other version of Flash... creating the symbols might have been a mistake that they fixed.
I cannot find anything to turn the feature on/off.

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