Moving keyframes around in motion tween?

Hi
In Flash CS5, after you've inserted a keyframe in a motion tween, how do you move that keyframe to another frame?
Cheers
Shaun

Make use of MotionEditor. Select Window >> Motion Editor. from main menu.
Details on Motion Editor here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flash/cs/using/WS0B461DB7-C633-4c1a-9855-44483601E912.html

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    I'll link to the CS6-flavoured .fla that those screenshots are from: http://scraps.fighunter.com/Meep.fla
    I'd very much appreciate it if someone could test this to see if it's happening to only me! If I go to frame 146 (to choose one at random), and try to rotate the foot, slightly, using the Free Transform tool, it breaks in the way that I've described. (Oddly, the head feather rotates without issues on that frame...) If you were to try to do this same thing and it *doesn't* break, it might be a good sign that it's my computer's fault!
    If it *does* break though... then I'd very much appreciate any help I can get from someone who understands the new motion tweens better than I do!
    It'd be a shame to have to go back to Classic Tweens because of this...

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