I completely agree with you Joshua, there has to be a standard in FlashIDE not an option for doing things. But this will be a programmers view.I think Flash has actually matured itself out of a designers’ tool and Adobe wants to make Designers’ at home in any form of Flash.That might be the cause of providing the settings.Being said that, it is also true when you talk about component creation.You have to revert back and forth with the setting which is waste of time and mind. And there should be an alert upfront while opening FlashIDE pointing out that, this is the tricky setting you have to deal with while developing in FlashIDE.