"But yeh, I can't see blitting 1000 bitmaps onto a static bitmap being faster than having flash handle it with attached movies"

Hmmmm I wish I didn't have more work than God atm, 'cause I wanna try this particle thing out.
I'm still interested to see if blitting rather than usings mc's will give the speed increase we want. I've got a feeling it may in some circumstances.

Squize.