Question about animating cartoons and anime in flash

I have just started learning flash 8 proffessional and i LOVE it, i already know hwo to build a fully featured and functional website, so that one objective off the list.

however i am wanting to do a big project now, animating a short film. but i want to know how capable flash is. i have seen programs like anime studio and toon boom get great remarks, but if i can do it all in flash i would rather since im getting so much into it and learning it fast, plus ToonB and AnimeS have very little tutorial content.

i want to know a few things though, firstly is it easy (by easy i mean is the program functional and provide good features to help the user) to animate humans, and clothes? and also is there a rigging feature of some kind. eg. in anime studio you can create bones for the 2d character.

also if you could link to some projects and films that have been created in flash that would also be great!

thanks and i hope you can help.