Fixed!

After that complete balls up I've re-written the code and tests, now finally it does indeed look like blitting is faster (as expected!).  Hurray!

I just saw that you can set up downloads on google code so I'll probably set up swf's for each test to be downloaded from there.  I'll write a proper post about it all over the next couple of days.

I *might* also set up some ANT stuff to automate some compiling tasks.  Joy!