FMLE vs AME

Hi.

Is the freely downloadable FMLE:

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/flashmediaencoder/

the same as the Adobe Media Encoder (AME) that comes with Flash CS4, Premiere Pro and After Effects?

Can't seem to find any difinitive info. Closest I can find is here:

http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showpost.php?s=d1e26e86bdc38340f1dbaf583bf b660b&p=2418746&postcount=9

where a guy (not from Adobe) claims:

quote:

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Adobe Media Encoder (AME) is available only in conjunction with Flash, After Effects, and Premiere Pro. Flash provides a standalone version so that you can encode media into the FLV, F4V, or H.264 codecs/formats for use with Flash. After Effects and Premiere Pro have an integrated version of AME that is used when exporting to the final format for output.

AME is not available separately as a standalone application.

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Anybody know the real deal?

And can somebody provide me with a link (somewhere on the Adobe site) to a source where I can confirm this info?

If they are not the same, can somebody provide a brief explanation of the diffs between the two encoders?

I found a download for an update (to AME v4.01) here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4226

.. but not for the original AME encoder.

I want to encode files that can be played with any current Flash player, and where I don't have to spend $4,500 on the FMLE server product.