A Few Questions (im a Beginner)

Hi, can some one help me out.

Here’s what im trying to do. Im trying to make a automatic CD-ROM using flash MX. it just has to be basic with an image as a background and a couple of buttons to open up movies that are stored in a seprate folder on the CD

  1. How do you import an image or photo as your background

  2. Can you make a button open a movie using windows media player in a diffrent application. ie just open a .avi file.]