I need help with my first flash drawing

http://filebox.vt.edu/~gyanez/hokiebird.html

I am using a bitmap image as a reference and drwaing over it (using mostly ovals and rectangles with a little of the brush tool).

I have the head completed so far. However, I’ve decided that I would like to eventually animate the eyes and mouth so I have run into a problem. My eye symbols include the white of the eye and the pupil, the outline around the eye, and what you would call the eye lid. All of these are on same layer in the symbol. If I try to select the pupil to make it its own symbol it selects black outline around eye too since these 2 fills are touching.

My question is there a easy/nice way to select just the pupil without the outline (I also want to seperate the eyelid into its own symbol too so same problem here with selecting it).

So any way or do I have to redraw these shapes on seperate layers to get them seperated and not cause major headaches.

Thanks.