Rendering / Exporting Animation for FLASH

Hello Friends,
Some time ago I made an animation in After Effects CS3 and either Rendered it or Exported it as an SWF. I then Imported it into my Library in my FLASH CS3 movie and all was terrific.
Although I have spent the last four days going through everything I can think of, I cannot for the life of me recall how I did this. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would be very grateful to hear from you.
Many thanks in advance!

Hello Mylenium,
THank you very kindly for your tip.
This was one of the very firast things I tried.
Unfortuanely, I got the following prompt:
"Wildform Flix Exporter encountered a problem.
This version of Flix Exporter is not licensed to run under the current application."
I have not yet figured out what it means. Never saw it before. If you or anyone has any idea, I would be very grateful hearing from you.
I thank all who can lend some advice.
David

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