Problem with text in flash

Where to start, lol. Ok I am making a flash website and I am having the worst time with text and text boxes. I have searched around for about 2 hours today and couldn’t find anything, but maybe I just don’t know how to word my problems, so figured I would ask.

  1. When I draw out a text box I am basically stuck with the drawn size as resizing it causes the text to “stretch”. I need to use a fixed dimension 348 X 335, it is impossible to free hand this as it ends up making it 347.4 or whatever, but never 348. So how can i resize without affecting the text inside the box.

  2. How do I make smaller sizes such as 12-16 actually readable. I tried switching from anti-aliased to bitmap but all that did was make my text huge in size and look pixelated.

Text boxes seem too touchy, look at them the wrong way and the text inside gets all screwed up, sized weird, blurry and stretched out of purportion. Thanks in advance for any help.