[PLEASE HELP!] Converting Flash (fla) to Animated Gif (gif) becomes pixelated!!!!

Hey guys,
Wondering if anyone can urgently help me please.
I've got a FLA file making an animated banner.
When I export it as an animated GIF, the background (which
originally is a solid color) has either dots or crosses making up
the color.
I've tried different settings such as dithering, changing the
palette but have had no luck. And I'm using one of the 256 colors.
Using a FLA that did have a good solid bg converted animated
GIF, I tried to export that one as well and it comes up with the
same problem.
So that means it's not the color/fla that is wrong, but is my
exporting to animated gif method. Any help please?
Attached is how the background turns out:
http://img403.imageshack.us/my.php?image=86993715ss7.gif
http://img140.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bg2wf9.png

And also when I try the publish method, the text either
produces some whacked up image or just see a sort of white box
shape around the original text.

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                                  tell application "Finder" to set name of aFile to newFilename
                        end try
              end repeat
    end tell
    [/applescript]
    the error I get is:
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    OK, to do that you just need to tell the Finder to duplicate the file first (you had originally set a destination folder, but didn't do anything with it) - note that there isn't any error handing (a duplicate file name for example), the script just logs the error:
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    set destination to choose folder with prompt "Please select destination directory."
    tell application "Finder"
       set file_list to every file of folder source_folder as alias list
    end tell
    repeat with aFile in file_list
       set tPath to quoted form of POSIX path of aFile
       set newFilename to (do shell script "mdls -name kMDItemContentCreationDate -raw " & tPath)
       set TID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
       set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
       set pieces to text items of newFilename
       set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "-"
       set newFilename to pieces as text
       set AppleScript's text item delimiters to TID
       try
          tell application "Finder"
             set copiedFile to (duplicate aFile to destination)
             set name of copiedFile to newFilename
             -- set name of copiedFile to text 1 thru 19 of newFilename -- strip off time offset
          end tell
       on error errorMsg number errorNum
          log errorMsg
       end try
    end repeat
    You can find information about the AppleScript language in the AppleScript Language Guide, and an application's scripting dictionary (if it has one) can be opened in the AppleScript Editor to view the additional commands that it provides.

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