Ok, I've been a flash designer for some time, and since I've heard many questions about flash I'd take the time to post some stuff...
A "decompiled" or "decompressed" flash file has a source of a .FLA which resembles the following:
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See, theirs not that much you can do with either file, its not even all that interesting, but you CAN NOT extract the .FLA from a .SWF file, I don't know of any decompressers, but I'd be willing to listen if anyone has anything.
-Gizmo