How do I get the position of a swf generated from an fla file that had a larger stage?

I don't believe you can get the stage size of a loaded swf, as there is only one stage in flash when you load a child swf in, it will use the parent stage. As you pointed out a loaded swf will collapse to the bounding box of the items within it.

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