Ok, this ends up being my first official tutorial.
It starts off as a photoshop/imageready tutorial then becomes Flash and ends up being too wide thanks to a dialog image DOH! and there might be other mistakes in there somewhere :-\
hopefully it’s not too confusing due to its “trick”
telekinesis asked a good question relating to the countdown and I provided a new .fla (which I guess works right, Ihaven’t heard yet that it doesnt ;)). Heres the thread