Newbie Flash Banners Help

First I am new to Flash and have mostly worked in PS.
I have created several animated banners in flash. The file sizes are large. I am trying to find a what is the best format and settings to use export these for upload into an website affiliate program (CJ).
I also want to know if I should have taken all of the media from PS and "saved for web" and stripped them down before I imported them to flash. I was hoping that there was a setting in Flash that would do that but I am not sure if there is one. The files for web banners are supposed to very small. I am just trying to understand how I should have created them and also how to publish them. I converted all of the images symbols thinking that would help. That did not.
Currently if I publish a gif they look horrible. I know I doing something wrong, but I just direction. They look great in flash but I am stuck. Any help is greatly appreciated.

http://swf-head.blogspot.com/2009/09/flash-optimization-performance-vs-file.html
You should save for web out of PS. If they need transparency, use png. If they are simply rectangles, use jpgs (about 65 - 70% out of PS). Then in flash, in the library right click on your jpg and hit Properties, uncheck "Use Imported Bitmap Data" and change that percentage to what ever you like - the higher the number the larger file size, the lower number the worse quality.
Text in flash looks much better. Keep in mind that fonts can carry extra weight.
Ned and KGlad are also right, make the images the correct size out of PS first.
There is a lot that goes into optimization, read the link above, its only part of optimizing - the images part.

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