It is clear that this text needs an update. There have been changes from the Flex 2 Beta to the latest version of Flex 2, and some scripts just don't work. The video player is quite troubling, and it's sad to hear that there are other problems as noted by another reviewer on this page.
What's even more upsetting is that the samples.zip available for this book contain the same errors present in the text. Consistency is good in some cases, but not in this one.
I should note that all of the resources I've found for learning AS3 have errors in them, including the materials from Lynda and TotalTraining. I mean, even the completed examples from the DVDs don't run properly, so someone needs to do clean-up on all of these resources.
O'Reilly has been good at noting changes in the past, but they seem particularly slow on this book.
In sum, unless you're already up to speed on AS3, you might want to wait before you buy any of the materials available for learning it.
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