Opening flash drawing in illustrator?

I drew an illustration for a local business in Flash using mostly the line tool. When I try to open it in illustrator, it acts as if it is not vector anymore, and when I try to do a live trace it looks terrible. I thought flash was vector? What am I doing wrong and how do I get it into a vector form without having to retrace the whole thing in illustrator.
thank you!

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