Strangeness with CS3 Flash Debugger

Hello friends,
I'm relatively new to Flash, but since I bought the new CS3
this summer I've made a concerted effort to learn how to use it in
my projects. One thing I've never been able to understand is the
debugger -- it just seems inconsistent? If I set a breakpoint and
Debug the SWF *sometimes* the debugger will correctly stop on the
appropriate line of code. From there, I can load the panel which
shows the active variables, state, etc. More often than not, when
debugging with breakpoints (or even a SINGLE breakpoint) the
debugger will stop when it encounters the breakpoint, however the
little arrow that shows where the execution has stopped is not
there -- its still just a little red circle indicating a
breakpoint. I can use the step in/step out commands, but I see no
feedback as to where the execution is taking place. Usually I end
up just issuing a "Continue" command, but that defeats the whole
point of a debugger. I'm quite familiar with debugging with Visual
Studios, Borland products and GDB on Linux. I feel like there is a
deficiency (or something I'm not aware of) with the CS3 Flash
debugger. Has anyone else experienced this bizaare behavior?
Your comments are appreciated.
Thanks! :)
PS: Initially I thought this problem only existed when I
typed AS3 in the frames of my SWF (because it seemd to work when I
wrote a separate .as class and linked it to the SWF as the document
class, however now even that assumption is failing me.

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