Newbie could use help with ILL.CS2 question!

[Cerebral Lad]

Hello, everyone! I hope I'm posting this in the right forum.
I've recently gotten a contract to do some vector art for a client. I'm brand-new at digital art - I usually do traditional paintings. After taking on the assignment, the guy who is doing the Flash programming told me he can't use the art I'm giving him.
Here's my process: I draw my line art by hand, then scan it into photoshop. Then I import it into Illustrator CS2 and use the Live Trace function to convert it to a vector image. Then I clean it up and call that group "INK". I also remove all the white fills, so that I can put coloured shapes underneath the INK group, thereby colouring the image in.
This is the best way I have found to work, because I can draw art that is still relatively 'hand-done' looking, and has lots of linework. Drawing the image in Illustrator wouldn't look nearly as good and would take FOREVER. Most importantly, the process I use allows me to paint colour behind the image, without having to worry about the colour fills being contained within the ink lines (ie. if I were to use Live Paint).
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So - the Flash guy says that flash can't handle 'compound paths'. I looked at my vector art, and sure enough, it's full of them!
So here's what I'm hoping someone here can help me with: Surely there MUST be a way that Illustrator can take my compound path and just turn it into a simple shape! Or what about if I convert my compound paths into compound shapes? Are those compatible with Flash?
It's very important I figure this out...I've got about 30 illustrations to do and the clock is ticking...!

I appreciate any help in this matter.
You can grab a sample file of mine to have a look at how I did it, if that will help:
http://members.shaw.ca/tempsite/butcher_final.ai

[distruktor]

open each illustration and do this:

File > Export... > now in the format select Macromedia Flash (SWF).


This will go staright into Flash so the guy is talking rubbish... i have tested it with your file aswell and it worked fine for me.

dis :D

[Cerebral Lad]

Really? That's strange...I wonder what problems the Flash guy was talking about, since he's worked for this company for a while. I can't get ahold of him for the next few days, otherwise I'd ask.
Thanks for the reply, Distruktor! I kind of thought there shouldn't be a problem since compound paths are such a commonly used part of Illustrator! If I knew anything at all about Flash I'd check it myself.

I'm still wondering if there's a way to work around this compound path problem, though...just in case. I just made up the technique I use by trial and error, so as far as I know there's an entirely different (and more compatible) way to do it.

[distruktor]

compound paths (whenever i have used them) have been fine in Flash...

if you have two paths in illustrator and you want the one path to create a whole in the other path you can either select the two paths and create a compound path or you can punch the one path through the other path using pathfinder... they will both be compound paths though, just different ways of getting there :p

save one as a swf send it through and see what he says... should be fine though, like i said it worked for me