Menu Help (n00b inside)

Sup All!

Okay, I’ve been on the scene for a while, print and advertisement are my gig, and I’ve recently started to develope and create webpages. In other words, I’m new to flash, quickly learning, wanting to learn, but am stuck.

Forgive me because I’m sure this seems like small potatoes to most of you, but to me who’s just starting out in flash it’s a mountain to me.

Anyway I’ve used kirupa’s tutorial demo on the menu, i’ve googled this to death, i’ve even searched this forum, but for some reason I can’t get the search to work. Get some funky html errors.

Anyway could somebody explain, or moreless walk me through a particularly menu in which I’m trying to create for one of my professors?

I have the jist of the drop-down menu, but anyway here’s what I got.

What’s the actions frame for?
Whats the invisible button frame for?

Could somebody break it down for me so I can know for next time?

and here’s a screen shot of what I’m trying to accomplish. It’s still pretty rough but I want to know what i"m doing before I finalize the design for this navigational menu for him.

Posted is a screen shot of the menu that would shoot out horizontally and obviously mouse over the sections, and they would either highlight to another color or the text change color. Either way I’m stuck on this issue, because I’m new in the flash world.

Thank you in advance

-michael