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I came across a bug where when you set the scrollRect of a DisplayObject and get a dimension, within the first few mil/nano-seconds it reports the correct width and height. However, after that the reported width and height is the scrollRect's width and height. This to me is a bug considering you can not request the object to tell you it's full dimensions any longer.

Take a look at http://www.kirupa.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-256884.html and here is the solution http://usecake.com/lab/find-the-height-and-width-of-a-sprite-with-a-scrollrect.html