use etag instead of last-modified.  Last-modified dates for AIR SDKs becaome unstable.  Sometimes it would give you different dates for the same file
diff --git a/MD5Checker/src/MD5Checker.mxml b/MD5Checker/src/MD5Checker.mxml
index 3e2b9c8..400e505 100644
--- a/MD5Checker/src/MD5Checker.mxml
+++ b/MD5Checker/src/MD5Checker.mxml
@@ -206,12 +206,16 @@
                     var headers:Array = event.responseHeaders;
                     for each (var header:URLRequestHeader in headers)
                     {
-                        if (header.name == "Last-Modified")
+                        if (header.name == "Etag" || header.name == "ETag")
                         {
                             lastModified = header.value;
+                            if (lastModified.indexOf('"') == 0)
+                                lastModified = lastModified.substr(1);
+                            if (lastModified.indexOf('"') == lastModified.length - 1)
+                                lastModified = lastModified.substr(0, lastModified.length - 1);
                             foundLastModified = true;
                         }
-                        else if ((header.name == "Etag" || header.name == "ETag") && lastModified == null)
+                        else if ((header.name == "Last-Modified") && lastModified == null)
                         {
                             lastModified = header.value;
                             foundLastModified = true;