I like it, I use paint.net personally. I do GFX but not major edits, I usually just change the effects, colors, or make logos etc. In which photoshop is too advanced and overdone :P
First of all, phoenix sucks. And second of all, it's your swfs, open up external variables and edit all the ips and if that don't work, open up your client .php and find the things that say like {external_vars} replace All of them with the url to the vars, swf path, text
As he said, I used to have this problem and thought I had all my swfs configured but I missed a few ips in the variables.
If that don't work, I suggest getting a new emu such as silverware or plus emu. Azure is shit.