Stop splitting strokes from fills on imported .ai?

[Touched]

I've been working in Flash for many years, and have many puppets and resources for my characters set up in Flash. Since we can't import even still image SWF in AS (don't need animation imported, but why can't we import single frame SWFs? That would solve everything!), and AS only supports .ai and eps as vector imports, there are two major problems with all imports:

1. Colours are always converted to CMYK -- must recolour everything back to proper colours.

2. My very nicely optimised Flash vector shapes, which have both stroke and fill, are converted to separate stroke and fill shapes, adding many points in the process. And some of the fills are spilling out over the strokes.

Now, my question is (aside from the simple "Is there any way to prevent those things from happening in the first place?"), is there any way to re-merge the lines and the fills? As it is, the only workaround I've figured out (and I've searched the forums for as many relevant terms as I could think of without finding the answers) is to manually remove all fills from my Flash art, leaving only lines (very tedious done piece by piece) also adding extra lines to close the shapes in the many cases where I have what AS refers to as "hidden" curves), then import the lines into AS, manually merge the ends of all the lines, then recreate the fills.

Any easier way to do this? Or will E-frontier consider adding still-image SWF import?

[artfx]

The guy from Cartoon Solutions has been converting his Flash characters over to AS. Perhaps he can tell us how he s getting his vectors from Flash into AS format and what steps it takes.