Realigning Objects based on states

Morning folks,

Hoping someone with some compassion can help a hopeless non-coder with a little something.

I am looking to create a site that is basically 1 large news box down the middle, but I want it to move down and resize itself if someone opens the “products” section. This would of course leave a new blank area with the external product.swf would load itself into.

I can do everything I need except 1 thing which is the relocation and resizing of the afore mentioned news box.

Does anyone have any ideas for tutorials or open source fla’s that might steer me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.

Jamie