Button activated layers

Hello:
I am proud to say that I am working on my first Flash site ever! I am only using very simple easy effects for now, later I will add more.

I have a movie that plays only once in the background, it contains 5 photos that fade in and out, just like a slide show.
The issue is that I have 5 buttons at the botton of the site, one for contact, links, etc and I would like the buttons to make another layer appear with the links info on top of the photo slide show and make the contact button pop up the contact layer. I read in a book called Flash for dummies that you need to use actions for this. I think it was called loadmovie or the other one was goto.
Is this something easy to do? Could someone help me out? Please?

sincerely

Gito