@scottadelman: For what it’s worth, I migrated my game from Storyboard to Composer over about 4 or 5 hours, and found the process relatively painless. However, I haven’t used Director, so I can’t speak to the difficulty there. Given the problems you’re running into though, it may be worth it to bite the bullet, especially because Director is only going to become more out of date.
Regarding speed in Graphics 2.0, I heartily agree; I expected it to be faster, but found it to be slower, and timing of transitions and timers to be off. Even when things worked properly, my game just felt “different” running under Graphics 2.0, with animations moving at subtly different speeds, and odd problems similar to the one you described. Not a huge fan, but not much we can do about it. Though I did manage to get the latest update to my game through to the App Store under Graphics 1.0.