SWF compression issues

I'm using Flash MX 04 Pro and am having issues with SWF
compression when compiling.
I have two .FLA which last week compiled to 52k and 83k.
Today they're compiling to 102k and 172k respectively!!!
I have not made any changes to the files, publish settings,
or general Flash settings whatsoever?
Any ideas why this is happening? Rather urgent as I have
things that need to go live this afternoon.
Thanks in advance!

Alright I take that back. While the compression does make the compiled SWF file a lot smaller, when trying to load time image data I keep getting invalid data errors:
Error: Error #2136: The SWF file file:///app.swf/[[DYNAMIC]]/24 contains invalid data.
at flash.display::BitmapData/ctor()
at flash.display::BitmapData()
Anyone know what's going on?
EDIT: I figured it out. Apparently you can't use smoothing when you're using compression or it will crash. That's it. Just remove the smoothing="true" tag and it will load fine. Would've been nice if that was in the documentation somewhere...

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Alright I take that back. While the compression does make the compiled SWF file a lot smaller, when trying to load time image data I keep getting invalid data errors:
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> Hello,
>
> I am looking for a program to shrink my gigantic .swf
file. Anybody know
> of any programs?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Peachy
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