Motion Tween Can't Be Broken Up?

I have an object with 500 Frames.  I gave it a Motion Tween.  Now I want to cut it down to 100 frames, without changing the Tween duration.  Usually you can insert a blank keyframe, or remove the last 400 frames on that layer.  But since it's a Motion Tween you cannot?
WTH is going on with Flash's timeline editor, this is ridiculously unintuitive.

If your using CS5... this is how you do it.
On a PC-
Control click on the frame you want the tween to end.... frame 100
From the drop down select "Split Motion". This will inset a key frame.
Next... hit delete... that will delete all the frames from 101 and beyond.
To clean it up... right mouse button click and select" Remove Tween".
I hope this helps.

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