Drawing with my third hand

Flash CS5.5 is great but it's not a drawing tool! Third month on the new job, totally in the zone and still fiddling with the tools. They seem primitive. No point size for a brush? Common guys. Can't join two nodes nor put 'no cap' on a dashed line? Yet there are other features that are way more sophisticated than anything I've seen to date in Illustrator and Photoshop. How I'd love to be able to have a short cut key in AI to stretch the line as I do with the black selection arrow in Flash. It reminds me of the power of nurbs in 3D. It seems there is always a trade off when working with design software. Couldn't one have it all? I know, I know; it's all for money. That will be a whole separate post ;)