Setting the last keyframe while motion tweening - cs4

I understand how to use the motion editor to move my objects and how flash will auto-keyframe a little diamond in the timeline.
But what if i already had all my keyframes already laid out? I've been manually moving the last keyframe (diamond) in the light blue tweened area to match the next keyframe (circle) in my timeline.
i have ~20 layers and many keyframes so this is getting tedious. Is there a better way to accomplish this?
Thanks

Can you post an example of what you are doing? Are you moving the keyframe along the timeline? You can select a keyframe in the timeline and then push or pull it to a different frame. This should change the length of the tween, but it will not change the duration of the timeline. If your timeline was 250 frames long and you move the second keyframe from 250 to 225, then the whole movie will still be 250 frames long, but the tweened part will only be 225 frames.
If you've been using Flash for a while and are used to the previous versions of tweening, you can still use those methods. That's a classic tween.

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