it would feel wrong to invent the wheel over again but, it looks as if I have no choice. Unless any one here can point me out a good alternative to the date chooser I’ll just have to make my own and share it. And I could think of no better place to do that then here.
just from the top of my head I think I will use the tilelist component as my calender and a text input as the date field. I want to make this as close to the AS2 version as possible. so the idea is once you put your cursor in the text field the calender pops up. then upon selection of the date the text input corresponds to the date chosen the pop up disappears and yadaa yadaa yadaa every one lives happily ever after. The End 
but NOOOO leave it to adobe to let Steven King write this story! 
