Importing PSD Text Problem

Hi All,
I have searched high and low through Google for an answer to the following problem - but to no avail.
Basically i am importing a PSD banner design into Flash CS4 professional.
I've used the import to stage option and have selected place layers at original position and have selected import this text as editable text.
The text layers are imported and are created as static text.
This is hard to describe - but my problem is as follows.
The imported text layers are roughly the same "physical" size as the original. However the text properties in flash show that ALL the imported text is 10.4pt. This figure is wrong as the text size varies in the design.
Another way of putting it is >
18pt text in the original photoshop document is approximately the same "physical" size in Flash but the flash character size setting is 10.4pt
30pt text in the original photoshop document is approximately the same "physical" size in Flash but the flash character size setting is also 10.4pt !
Ok now i'm guessing your thinking i haven't selected the text object and thats why the character size property is not changing. And that 10.4pt must of been a previous setting i've used. Thats not the case though! I have selected the text object and even gone down to highlighting it just to double check.. The character property still remains at 10.4pt.
If anyone can throw any light on this it would be greatly appreciated.
PS the original photoshop document has a resoultion of 72 pixels/inch. Presumably this would mean that the photoshop point size should be one to one with the flash import. Ie 18pt text in photoshop should be 18pt in flash?

Hi,
OK i found the problem.
If the text created in photoshop has been transformed at any point in the design process photoshop seems to remember it's original point size in the document.
This can be seen in photoshop when copying the transformed text (by highlighting it - rather than layer copy) and pasting it into a new box. The text returns to it's original size before the transformation.
SO when importing the transformed text into Flash CS4 - Flash creates an approximation of the transformed size - BUT will set the character size to the pre-transformed point size. In my case it was 10.4pt....
I'm using Flash CS4 Professional with OSX (leopard and snow leopard) - incase this is OS specific..
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