Integrating Flex created SWF into Flash project

Hi all,
Hopefully some one here will be able to help. I am using
Flash CS4 so I was hoping this would work fine as it can target the
flex library. I have a contact form created in flex which uses the
accordion component and flex's great validate functions and the
alert box. Now I can load the contact form into the flash project
via a loader and I have no problem with it bieng viewable or
opperational in the final swf. However when the user clicks the
submit button, nothing works and I get a bunch of error messages:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of
a null object reference.
at
mx.core::UIComponent/setFocus()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\c ore\UIComponent.as:6857]
at
mx.controls.alertClasses::AlertForm/commitProperties()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\proj ects\framework\src\mx\controls\alertClasses\AlertForm.as:243]
at
mx.core::UIComponent/validateProperties()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framewor k\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:5807]
at
mx.managers::LayoutManager/validateClient()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framew ork\src\mx\managers\LayoutManager.as:811]
at
mx.managers::PopUpManagerImpl/addPopUp()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework \src\mx\managers\PopUpManagerImpl.as:347]
at
mx.managers::PopUpManager$/addPopUp()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\sr c\mx\managers\PopUpManager.as:169]
at
mx.controls::Alert$/show()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\contro ls\Alert.as:519]
at UV_Website_Contact_Form/submit()[E:\Documents\Flash\Flash
Projects\Flex
Workspace\UV_Website_Contact_Form\src\UV_Website_Contact_Form.mxml:46]
at
UV_Website_Contact_Form/__Submit_btn_click()[E:\Documents\Flash\Flash
Projects\Flex
Workspace\UV_Website_Contact_Form\src\UV_Website_Contact_Form.mxml:97]
It looks like Flash is having problems creating the Alert box
from the flex library, but surely this has been exported into the
flex swf when that was compiled? Dunno......can anyone shed any
light?
Thanks
Shane

My guess is this won't work as Flash 8 player isn't
compatible with ActionScript 3.

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