New to Flash, Trying to Play a MC

[Zooch]

Hi all,

Just picked up flash a couple days ago and went through a beginner video tutorial. I learned how to create symbols and edit their properties (for the most part) as well as creating shape and motion tweens.

This is all good until I realize I can't do anything but make crappy, clunky blocks and circles change colors and re-size and turn into random letters. I feel a long way from developing the website that needs finished in 2 weeks.

Anyways, what I'm trying to accomplish today is to get a button to start a movie clip. To paint a clearer picture, I'm trying to take a square (with text thrown on it) and make it so when the viewer clicks on the rectangle, another larger rectangle appears above it, displaying information.

Okay, It's a "Contact Us!" button. I want a larger rectangle to "grow" from the bottom left corner and "materialize" (from clear to black), then once finished animating, display our contact information (links included).

Thanks in advance for reading - look forward to your responses!

Zach

PS -- I'm not a programmer. I've looked into ActionScript 3.0 and I'm about 90% confused. I understand the basics like what variables and functions are, but I have no concept of the proper grammar and library knowledge to understand all the lingo. However, if you throw some code in a reply, I can copy+paste like a champ.