Coming home to Director...

["jasonLampitt" <webforumsuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's been several years since I did a Director project. I took the skills 
Director taught me and ventured off into the brave new world of ActionScript 
land and have barely touched this old friend until recently when I was asked to 
crank out a couple of CD's for a client.

 Almost all went surprisingly well. It only took me 15 minutes or so to recall 
my favorite passages in the Lingo Dictionary and begin cranking out property 
lists and new behaviors but since I've "upgraded" to MX 2004 (my god... are 
they ever going to give Director a fresh coat of paint?!?) I did run into a few 
hiccups. I'm hoping someone out there will be kind enough to this "old Director 
newbie" and give me a few pointers on a couple of items...


 1. Fast-Start Projectors on the PC: No matter what I did, I could not get a 
shockwave projector (fast-start projector, stub projector... call it what you 
want) to run without getting a blasted message to install Shockwave 10. I ended 
up having to just create a standard projector. It was still fairly small (2.3 
mb) but compared to the stub projectors I used to crank out this one was 
gigantic!!  Does the old method of pulling out the .dll files and such not fly 
anymore? I found a few technotes and such, but none of them seem to be focused 
on MX 2004 specifically.

 2. Forms: Seemed to me there was a better way to build a Director form back in 
the day (5 years ago??) with an Xtra, but the name escaped me. 30 minutes of 
Googling pretty much left me with the option of using postNetText.  Did I go 
completely brain dead on this topic?

 Thanks in advance for your reply's