Loading SWF from CS5

Hi,
I'm porting a plug-in from CS4 to CS5 which has Flex components to it. There is no mention of any changes in the Flex portion of the API in the porting guide, but yet it's obviously changed. To make things worse, the sample flexuistroke is missing all the C++ code.
I made the obvious change from LoadMovie to LoadSWF and while all function calls succeed, the SWF file never shows up in our panel.
Can anyone tell me either what's changed or provide an example?
Thanks

later some debug, I found this:
buttons on a container MovieClip react slower than buttons on main timeline (all air versions [desktop, android])
seems (and sounds, to say the truth) to be correct the running path: [mouse events:]
OVER -> DOWN [and then] UP -> CLICK
but,
OVER -> DOWN [and then] UP -> CLICK with buttons in main timeline is fast enough
OVER -> DOWN [and then] UP -> CLICK with buttons a MovieCLip is not fast enough to be acceptable
and, in the case:
OVER -> DOWN [and then] UP -> CLICK with buttons a MovieCLip is AIR for Android is terribly SLOW (can't use buttons?!?!)
adobe, have I to open a bug report?
Massimiliano
nb AIR 2.5.1 (I ask to myself if previous versions of AIR were free from this bug, or if worldwide developers are used to not to use buttons in movieclips when developing for AIR...)

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