Upgrading Flex Builder to 3.5 SDK

Hi all,
I use the plugin version of Flex builder but I need to upgrade to Flex 3.5 SDK and I don't know how. What do I need to download and how do I configure Eclipse to see the new SDK. The reason for this is that version 3 doesn't seem to contain the mx.controls package and I really need it!
Many thanks for any assistance
Regards
Kevin
PS I do realise that Flash builder 4 is out but I don't want to upgrade to that just yet

Thanks Jason,
I have done that successfully but for some reason in my Actionscript projects the mx.controls package is still not available. It's only if I create a Flex project that things like mx.controls.TextArea become available.
Any way around this?
Cheers
Kevin

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