I know the grid thing has been posted before, but I thought I would share my version of it.
animating images into a grid
example/doc - http://bencline.net/blog/2006/11/28/loading-thumbnails-from-xml-into-flash-into-a-grid/
.zip file - http://www.bencline.net/source_code/thumbnail_grid/xml_thumb_grid.zip
sorting images by category in a grid (includes category menu created via xml)
example/doc - http://bencline.net/blog/2007/01/29/sorting-images-loaded-from-xml-by-category-in-flash/
.zip file - http://bencline.net/source_code/sorting/sorting.zip
Enjoy.
