Jerky motion

I was working on a flash movie recently that ended up being very large. (2mb - for a presentation and not actually for the web) It had a few motion tweens in the movie and as the movie grew in size I noticed the tweens becoming a bit jerky and jumpy.

Few questions about this:

Anyone know why this happens?
Anyone know how to combat this? Is it a case of adjusting the movie speed and if it is, is a case of slowing or speeding the movie?
If it’s not a case of adjusting the speed, what can be done about this?
And do you still use the motion tweens or have you switched to using actionscript instead?

This happens to me occasionly and I’ve tried messing around with the frame speed but then it ends up being faster or slower than I wanted. Any tips with this is appreciated, thanks :beer: