actaully the drawing tools in flash are pretty damn superior to all those mentioned. it is by far the easiest to edit drawn lines.
if you can get a hold of this :
http://www.totaltraining.com/prod/web/f ... sp?mscsid=
give it a try and youll see what i mean. ive found tons of those vid tutorials in the ngs so i imagine you can probably torrent them as well if thats your means of hacking programs.