Animation help

Hi to you all.
New to site and just as new to flash so whatever help you can give is much appreciated.

Im trying to do an animation or flash movie.

Imagine a grid of 9 squares ,in 3 rows of 3.

I want to have each of the squares reduce in size independantly when the mouse is over them - how best to do this?

I’ve tried it and its not working how id like. What i did was create the square, turned it into a button/movie clip ( what exactly is the difference anyway?)edited it in place and made a little animation where it reduces in size over the key frames. I then copied it nine time but they all move in sequence rather than independantly.

Anyway if you could impart some of your knowledge i’d be very gratelful. Stumbled across this site and found the tutorial so uselfeul. Great site.

Thanks,

k