Odd Timer Behavior

Hi,

I was working on an AIR application today and noticed some odd behavior with the Timer class.  To isolate the problem, I created a stripped down file that contained only a simple timer and the problem persisted.  In a nutshell a timer calls a function 5x that traces "tick" does the following:  The first 2 times the function is called the trace appears as expected but then a delay ensues, perhaps 8 seconds, and then the last three traces ("ticks") appear together.  If I make it a flash file, it works as expected-- all ticks appear 1 second apart. 

I was doing some work in JAVA recently on the same system, and wonder if something I did there (e.g. installing the SDK) may be interfering with the AIR Debug Launcher.

Any ideas will be appreciated.

Best,

C.S.