Trying to focus in on a DateField component

Has anyone ever had trouble sending keyboard focus to the
DateField component? Try this: create a new Flash document and
insert a TextInput component named textItem, a DateField component
named dateItem and a ComboBox component named ComboItem. Then
insert the following code:
textItem.tabIndex=1;
dateItem.tabIndex=2;
comboItem.tabIndex=3;
stop();
Test the movie and try to tab over to the DateField component
from the TextInput component. Why does the focus skip over the
DateField? Is this something easy to fix, or are we going to have
to wait and spend more $$$ for a new release from
Adobe/Macromedia?

Same here....
Haven't seen a response from Adobe either. "Mum is the word"
apparently.
Also, finding the documentation to set a default value to be
non-existant as well.
What should be as easy as setting "instance.date = xxxx;"
appears to have been obfuscated to the point of making this little
component nigh unusable.
Bah...not happy

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* @author marc
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