Pretty happy about how this has turned out, found that once I had rigged the whole thing the animation wasn't hard to block out and then just tweak.  Did a good job I think reminding myself how to use flash well, and learned a few things about it as I went too.
I like this character, and the way he is rigged, so I might keep working with it, or I could start another from scratch for the practice, but I think I will be sticking with flash for a while anyway.