Three Flash CS4 Glitches

I am just posting these so they are out there and don't go unnoticed. They are 3 glitches that can be quite bothersome and time-consuming to work around.
The Color selection in the tool panel cannot select any gradients or semi-transparent colors and instead will sample each individual pixel of the gradient (see attachment). This used to work in flash cs3. Why break it?
While using AS3 I cannot check for key presses on any keyboard button that selects a tool from within the flash environment (for example V - selection tool). So while testing my game from within the flash environment, I can't create any games that use A,V,B,S, etc. because they instead select the flash tool and are not picked up in the game.
Every so often the onion-skinning doesn't display I have to turn it off and back on again, sometimes even toggle the visibility of other layers.
If anyone is encountering these problems please reply. I want to know if its my flash that has these glitches.

Oh MAN! I've been having the same problem with the onion skin tool failing outright for me as well! EXTREMELY frustrating! I've been forced to copy and paste tons of frames and layers into new documents in order to regain use of the onion skin because apparently unlike you once my document loses the onion skin ability it doesn't come back. Needless to say this has caused a lot of delays and irritation because I'm working near exclusively with frame-to-frame hand drawn work with minimal symbol inbetweening for motion.
I'm having other glitches which I'll save for a different post but someone please tell me this is a bug that will be fixed quickly or that there's some setting that can be implemented to correct it!
-Brian Reynolds

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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:44:10 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: How can I use LCCS with ActionScript 3 and Flash CS4?
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