Help with flash animation!

Hi there! My name is Dean and I've bought Adobe Flash CS4 4 months ago. I'm very new to flash and I've already made my first animation -
http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1267200676
but I'm here to ask a question.
Well, I've been riding this cartoon -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbUqEPUZ-ds
and I was wondering, how did they do the hands and legs animation? It looks like the bone tool, but whenever I use the bone tool, I can't get it right! I always get wrong edges! Here are some pictures of my failures -
http://img202.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=fail5.jpg
anyway, I just couldn't get it right and I think it's because I draw it wrong.
Please, any help will be awesome!
mail: [email protected]
msn: [email protected]
Oh and by the way, about the lipsync, I think its a little jumpy, How can i make it better? (Like the Cartoon on top^)
Thanks!

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>I am building my website in Dreamweaver MX 2004 and have
been using the MX
>2004
> version of Flash for some of my slide shows. Those have
been going well,
> primarily because I have been following a tutorial, but
for what I am
> looking
> for now, I cannot seem to find the right tutorial. I
would like for the
> buttons on my main page to "shoot" onto the page from
the left just as a
> user
> opens the page and then for that animation to stop.
Currently the buttons
> are
> rollover images with links to other areas of my website
in dreamweaver,
> and
> with this animation I would only assume that Flash would
be necesary. Do
> I
> have to remove the buttons in Dreamweaver and just
create a movie in Flash
> and
> then position that movie where the buttons would be? Or
can I have an
> introduction movie for the buttons and then have my real
buttons appear?
>

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