Yeah, Flash tends to be a mess until you've worked with it a while and come up with your own way of organizing things. It'll happen. The important thing is that you're actually taking the time to do this, and that's great.

a lot of people say that about them

it started with tinfoil beerbottle sculptures
then i began obsesively drawing these bunnies
http://www.catswilleatyou.com/images/drawings/fiction/drawing_0009_keepitshut.html
and so when i finally saw donnie darko
i instantly loved it because of that shit

So, you drew that picture in the link up above? That's awesome. I think that is cool as hell. I wish I could draw. That reminds me of illustrations from like an adult Dr. Suess or something. Or some Tim Burton storyboard. It's cool man. I dig it.

thanks... tim burton would have been an influence along the way definately
http://www.catswilleatyou.com/drawings_fiction.html
there are many i've done in a similar style on this page
most of it is getting kind old
ive done tons and tons just havent had a lot of time to scan them in

ive been more into the figure drawing lately
...
naked bitches

Well, it's not like it's a bad thing. It doesn't harm you at all, from what I've seen. It's just an organizational tool now. You just have to be careful when coding, if you get into that. Just don't pay attention to scenes as anything other than a continuation of what happened before in the timeline, because Flash doesn't care. Sometimes it's just helpful to break up a huge amount of material over scenes to keep it clean and easy to edit. The folders help as well.

I can't believe people are so lazy they won't do the 5 second update to Flash player 8.

hmm... maybe i should use scenes then
i had problems with sound triggering early
and was told by an "expert" not to use scenes
and then he went on a rant about how unnecessary they are now
i said kind of liked em
but
i couldnt figure out a way to just switch scenes around easy
or delete one entirely so...
i took his word for it anyways

when i got rid of my scenes
my sound problem still happened
and i ended up having to learn a tiny script
to get all of the sound to happen on time

Yeah, Flash just ignores scenes now. It just merges everything back into one long timeline when you publish the movie, which is why the actionscripting has to be more explicit when you call out frames. I really don't think it makes any difference at all to Flash. If you like 'em, keep using them. It won't hurt anything.

I had the same problem with sound on a small project I did at work. From what I understood, and I may be wrong, it had something do with the way how Flash files are handled by the processor. When you develop something on your machine, it may work fine under a certain amount of demand on the CPU, but if you put in a slower machine, suddenly the animation is rendering as it should, but the audio is not being handled the way it should, or something like that. I think there's a setting for syncing audio so that Flash drops frames or something to keep the animation in time with the audio, but I really haven't done much with audio, so I can't say - but maybe that gives you enough to find an answer.

I liked this too. What's up with the haters?

Very creative and weird but in a funny way. I'd like to see some more of these.