Hang on a second.

This map of Europe is a bitmap, right? You're gonna have to TRACE it in Flash or Illustrator and then DELETE the bitmap. It's the bitmap that's really messing things up.

Plus when you save it from illustrator, save it as an .eps file (version 5.0/5.5)

Does this help? Do you understand the differnce between Bitmaps and Vectors?

Vince