Found mtasc a few weeks ago: http://www.mtasc.org/
Not having used flash before and being quite impatient with gui environments I thought I'd give this command line swf compiler a try.
The "hello world" example worked ... so that got me motivated to look further... and after a couple of weeks browsing actionscript sites I managed to get a flash listings widget working.
Its a customisable gadget that can be embedded in any web page to display spraci listings.
I've added it to the spraci gadgets code generator page: