IOS Packager FlashCS5

Hello,
I'm in desperate need of some quick help. I've been through the ringer all day trying to figure this out. I develop games for the iPhone and Android devices using Flash CS5. I recently packaged and uploaded my first iPhone app successfully and it was approved. Following the same exact procedure, with a new provisioning file and appropriate file name changes - I published/packaged my second iPhone application. My problem is when I go to upload it using the Application Loader, it returns an error stating (null) is not a valid zip file. I'm lead to assume this is Flash not packaging the file properly or the Application Loader gone awry! Is anybody else experiencing this issue? Not sure what is going wrong here. I've got some 13 more apps to convert over and I'm sort of at a loss at this point.
Is there an alternative way I can pacakge the application? I appreciate any assistance! Thanks.

Thanks for the response! -- I was able to figure it out after 3 days of troubleshooting. Hopefully this helps someone else in the future.
I'm working on a PC - created all my provisioning and certs using command prompts. Develop and Package in Flash CS5 for iOS on the PC. I have someone on my tech team that I email the finished ipa to for upload via Mac & the application loader. The initial submission went through email fine and was subsequently accepted to the appStore. Anything I emailed afterwards, I imagine, was somehow getting lost in translation between devices/email - When my tech team went to submit, it kept giving the "(null) is not a valid zip" message.
In desperation, I eventually met up with my tech team to review their process to make sure nothing was going wrong on their end. I brought my ipa's via USB, and everything loaded perfectly fine as is currently 'Waiting For Review'. 6 applications later, haven't had an issue since. Lesson learned! -

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Hello,
Since I first encountered this bug, I have always had my asset files in
subfolders. See the attached screen shot. This is my project folder, and
every subfolder is included except for the com folder, which for some
reason FB copied into the bin directory on it's own.
So I do not think this fixed. In this report, they are not using the same
number of files as I am, so it is possible that this only works with a low
number of files.
thx
Anirudh Sasikumar <[email protected]>
06/23/2011 01:26 AM
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Keith Lee <[email protected]>
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Unable To Include Files In iOS Package
Caterpillar: Confidential Green Retain Until: 07/23/2011
Here is the bug: https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-31616
The comments seem to indicate that if you put your files in a subfolder
rather than directly in src, it should work.
Let us know how it goes.
-Anirudh

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i understood why
I had the same problem
i solved in this way
before exporting the *.p12 file i chained the certificate to the key by selecting it in the key panel and importing from the file menu the certificate
in this way key and certificate are associated
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