Any "Easy <-> Intermediate" way to animate buttons?

I was looking around the forums and saw many examples but most were “advanced” near page long things… I was wodnering if theirs a simplier way to control buttons animations like…

Mouseover button, menu drops and stops
Mouseover another button and the previous button “retracts” (Menu goes back to its original state) and the button you went over animates down

Baiscally when you go over a button it runs another Movie which animates a drop down menu

-In Detail

Mouse over target (the button itself dosne’t animate when mouseover)

Tells “ThisMenuTarget1” to animate

This menu stays down until someone mousesover another button in which case “ThisMenuTarget1” retracts and goes back to its original state and “ThisMenuTarget2” drops down. When they go over “ThisMenuTarget3” then “ThisMenuTarget2” retreacts to its original state and “ThisMenuTarget3” drops down and so on…

Any “Sort of” simple way to do this?