TextField Scrollbar with external data

If I load a textField with data using AS3, e.g. mytext.text =
"lots of text here....", and if the textField has a UIScrollBar
component attached, the scrollbar works fine in testmovie mode, and
in IE, but doesn't display in FF.
The scrollbar displays correctly if the text is included in
the textfield in the authoring environment, it only fails when the
text is added using AS, and only in FF!
Can anyone give me any insight into this problem? I don't see
any discussion of such a problem anywhere on the web so I imagine
I'm doing something wrong!

The scrollbar component needs to know how much text is loaded
into the textfield so that it can work correctly. For whatever
reason, the Flash activeX control can deal with this but the plugin
doesn't work as well.
If you apply the scrollbar using actionscript, and add it to
the textfield after the text is loaded, it will work
correctly.

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