Do I need to embed "bold" versions of Verdana to make bold with AS?

-Adobe CS3 Web Premium.
-Compiling using AS3.

I'm pulling in some text values from an external XML file for a "next" button and I set the font to bold when I made it Verdana. I'm not sure why but it still is normal verdana when I compile it.

I've found several posts similar to mine saying I need to embed the bold version of the font, but I don't have the option of purchasing or creating a bold Verdana.

Since it is just Verdana, is there not a method I can use to simply bold the text?

I appreciate any advice,
seth

Screw it. I just used Arial Black instead of Verdana Bold.

This must be one of the most annoying problems ever.

There are two things I was unable to try:

1. Remake the entire FLA (hah, yeah right).
2. Do this all in Flex (double yeah right, not with this time frame).

Thanks anyway! Would appreciate any help...

Embedding Arial also had the same problem (bold would not be bold).