Try/catching errors occuring in synchronous event handlers

Question

Hi,
I know that using try/catch in flash player it is possible to catch only synchronous errors, but recently I ran into code in our application which I strongly believe is synchronous but it behaves as if it wasn't.
In example below I create event listener and inside try/catch I dispatch event. Handler function throws error. Executing code stops when error is thrown, so message "after throwing error" won't be logged, but try/catch block catches nothing and code executes as if nothing happened after event dispatch.
Dispatching event on element executes handler method immediately so it is synchronous execution. Event call stack which is displayed in debug versions of flash player, shows every function from creation of class to execution of handler.
Generally flash applications relays heavily on events and in my case it caused ours users projects to be irreversibly corrupted, because of this continuing to work after error, which I even can't properly detect and handle, cause it's going throught 5 or more event handlers and adding try/catch to each handler would create enormous chaos in my code. So my question is why does flash player behaves like this? Are there any ways to tell compiled SWF file to treat such cases as synchronous calls, f.e. compilation parameters?
package
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.events.EventDispatcher;
    import flash.text.TextField;
    public class TestApp extends Sprite
        public var cTextField:TextField;
        public function TestApp()
            cTextField = new TextField();
            cTextField.width = 300;
            cTextField.height = 200;
            addChild(cTextField);
            onAppCreated();
        protected function onAppCreated():void
            var eventName:String = "my_event";
            var caughtError:Boolean = false;
            var dispatcher:EventDispatcher = new EventDispatcher();
            dispatcher.addEventListener(eventName, handler);
            try
                dispatcher.dispatchEvent(new Event(eventName));
            } catch (error:Error)
                caughtError = true;
            cTextField.text += caughtError ? "caught error\n" : "error wasn't caught\n";
        protected function handler(event:Event):void
            cTextField.text += "before throwing error\n";
            throw new Error("throw error");
            cTextField.text += "after throwing error\n";

Answer 1

Okay, nobody bit.  Sorry. 
The only way to really figure out what is going on is to look at a running example with a C++ debugger.  I'm particularly curious about whether this problem happens in a specific browser/os combination (we may be working around a quirk of that platform), or if it's something that happens everywhere.
The most effective way to proceed is going to be to file a bug with a simplified, executable example (source and compiled SWF, ideally) that demonstrates the problem.  This will help me route the bug to a developer and get you an answer in the shortest time possible. 
You can file a bug here:
http://bugbase.adobe.com/
If you reply here with the bug number, I'll get it assigned to an engineer.
Thanks!