Thanks for swift reply...
i've tried that method and it doesn't work nearly well enough - those programs drop out frames in order to keep up… and the result is a jerky version of the animation. I've tried all the suggestions out there, such as closing all other applications, etc. It seems strange to me that Adobe would steer you away from their own "ecosystem" towards 3rd party software to get this seemingly simple job done?
It looks to me like i'll have to rebuild the whole thing in Flash, just to get a SWF that I can then convert to .mov