I accidentally caused a crash in Flash pro 8, by choosing to payback the
animation, and slecting the zoom menu...
 It's currently open, but not responding, and i was wondering if there is any
way of getting the work ive done on it... as ive (rather stupdly i know) been
working for 7 hours on this and in all that time i havent saved once... (when
im in a creative mood its difficult to concentrate wih saving every 5 minutes)

 So if flash temporarily stores information, i was wondering if its possible
for me to make a cop of that before i close the not responding flash program..

 (id like some advice fairly soon as its maxing out my CPU usage at the moment
and i dont want my processor burning a molten hole out the bottom o my pc)

The last resort that comes to mind is decompiling the latest SWF file, as I am sure you tested the file more then the one time you saved it.  Otherwise, pray it becomes unstuck!