Ok, I’ve been searching forums and whatnot for the solution to this but haven’t come across an answer yet so I figured I’d post to see if anyone in blogland can help.
Basically, it seems that flash is distorting jpgs when they are loaded into a blank clip with loadMovie. Here’s an example. image has a 1px black border in it.
This is the actual image, everything’s fine:

This is how it looks after loading into flash:

Notice the black border on top and left is thicker and its disappeared from the bottom.
There is nothing messing with any properties( _width, _height, _xscale, _yscale) of the clip that is recieving the jpg, or any of its parent clips.
Has anyone come across this before?
http://www.kaourantin.net/2005/12/dynamically-loading-bitmaps-with.html