compnents in "8" professional

[liquidsilo]

OK, i've been stuggling with creating dynamic text forms that i can collect data, compile and have it loaded into an email sent to mrkt. director from website. I finally found the components under the "window" tab which allows me to simply drag in, and spedify parameters. "great, tho I still don't know how they work, one thing at a time,) So my problem now, is that I cannot figure out how to get into the components to change the colors of the selected fields and such, (ie, rollover color in dropdowns) Whenever I double-click on the component, it tells me to enter properties from the parameter field, but this allows me to do nothing. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I want to know how to do this stuff, not hand held solutions,

Thanks, so far this resource has been extremely helpfull in teaching myself Flash!

James