Flash is an excellent tool and it's been a lot of fun rediscovering it while working on the widgets.  However, there are just a few things that it's lacking that can be somewhat of pain while developing inside it.  9 times out of 10 you can usually find a work around or if you look hard enough you can find a buried article from someone who came across the same problem as you and came up with a work around. One problem I came across during the widget development was parsing out ...