Weird flash cs3 bug help!

Hi ANybody help me on this?
All of a sudden I lost a file I had been working onlast
night, it was still there but when i opened it it was last saved
some 12 hours before my final save of the day. Thought that was it
and then i found something else, when flash is not open, I click on
a file to launch the software and it causes the finder to crash /
relaunch! But if i open the software and then open it its OK and
works.. another weird thing is when i look at the icon of the flash
.fla in the finder it appears as a small volume slider like a .mp3!
now that really is scary! I tried to reinstall and no changes
there, all i can expect to try next is a complete system reinstall?
any ideas.
thanks JAY

As long as I'm understanding the issue correctly, this is a long standing "Flashism" (not saying it's right or desirable, but something that has required a workaround for a very long time). See if you can use nesting to get around the issue (the animation will restart when keyframes are encountered), I'll send this issue in for review. It's possible it has something to do with Player, although I can't find any concrete information on this to know for sure.

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