Is it possible do set styles via CSS at runtime inside a Flex app? I read about this method on Ted's blog but it appears that I still need to set up and compile the stylesheet upfront, which means I need to know the colors etc that I want to use in the future... To me that seems to be a designtime style, not a runtime one.
Example in hand: I need to build a Flex app that is configurable in appearance via a CMS. I figured that it would be great to use an external stylesheet for this and generate that from the CMS. But reading Ted's post I now realize that Flex CSS styles are compiled into the SWF, not loaded and somehow processed at runtime. Am I correct here? I assume that's the case because when I remove the CSS folder from my bin directory I still see my styles, so the CSS is not external after all...!? Sorry but I assumed it was, at least that's how I expetced it to work.

So what do I do? Do I need to save my styles in XML for example, load the XML at startup and then set colors? I'd call that a step in the wrong direction (the German's have a saying for that which goes somewhat like: 'from behind through the chest into the eye').
Or is this a job for FDS (in which case it's overkill as the rest of the app won't need it). Thoughts? I am sure there are many use cases for stylising Flex apps without having to compile CSS SWFs or even the entire app itself...