Large image sequences in Flash - How to reduce memory usage?

So I'm trying to publish a looping animation in Flash with a large amount of image sequences in it. (around 3000 frames all told). And I'm having problems with the swf using too much memory when it's played.
The swf is about 80mb, but the file uses an excess of 2gb of ram when played. I don't know why that would be. A memory leak?
My understanding is: that Flash will just load all images in a swf into memory unless you dump the memory somehow.Can anyone explain how to do this? Is it possible? I can't seem to find a solution online.
Thanks

Thanks for your reply. I think I was being just overly ambitious trying to get this to play in swf form on sub 4gb ram machines. I've resorted to external video.

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> Hello,
>
> I use LightWave 3D to create a set of characters that
are simple talking
> heads. Composited in Mirage and edited in VT4, it's all
bitmap images. You can
> see a sample here:
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> www.subversive-entertainment.com
>
> That version was intended for TV but isn't going to
sell. I'd like to try it
> as an animated editorial cartoon embedded in a Flash
player at online
> newspapers. But when I compress the video it doesn't
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> know a direct Flash file would. I'd like to import the
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> Flash and converting them to symbols(?) or movie
clips(?) or(?)...
>
> What would be the best way to handle the image sequences
in Flash? They are
> currently 180 frames long for each character, but I
could reduce the image
> sequence to as little as 60 frames. Once the image
sequence is converted to a
> set of symbols(?) they would be re-used over and over.
>
> I imported a 180 frame image sequence and it put one
image on each frame in
> the Flash timeline. How would I convert that entire
image seqence to a sequence
> of symbols(?) that I could re-use. When I exported it as
a movie it made a .swf
> file that looks great but I don't think that's what I
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> Flash. (I'll create a differnt background in FLash as
well.)
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> Whew,
>
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>
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>

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