Agreed. We had the same problem with flash charts, it was like the most requested feature so we just ripped them out and replaced with a server side generated chart.
I quite like OpenFlashChart (which uses JSON as an input format, though that JSON is typically made with a server-side language).
I use the Python bindings (which use Chart objects) and the output generally works with my brain. Users like that mouse-overs give exact values in the line at that point.