@henry.  Thanks for he comment.  I agree that basic animation with Flash is a breeze.  I was amazed at how intuitive the tool was even back in the Macromedia days.  My understanding is that <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.html" rel="nofollow">Adobe is stopping development efforts for flash on mobile platforms</a> and is focusing on an HTML 5 strategy.