A few problems that I have switching to CS5 il. Help please?

Hi all,
The problems that I have all stem from the habits that I have aquired working with flash MX to casually produce graphics in over the years. I did so for it's ease of use and because, in honesty, I knew nothing about other vector programs.
Anyway now that I have been introduced to illustrator I can see the potential but there are a few things that make working in il frustrating, but if ironed out would make my workflow much smoother and faster, like it was in Flash.
Firstly, in Flash I would often use X/Y values to make sure my objects/shapes where in the exact right places. I can't seem to find an easy way of doing this in illustrator... Is there a window where I can simply input an X value and a Y value hit enter and the object selected will go there?
I also liked Flash's library system, and object system, I could make a shape or graphic select it all and "convert to symbol". This would then be stored in the library ready for pulling out instances of that graphic when needed and even making modified duplicates of the graphic. From what I can work out in illustrator the closest thing to this is grouping shapes but I'd like to know if there is anything closer to what I just described.
There are other issues that I'm having but much more menial and I'm pretty sure that they are more a case of practice makes perfect.
Through lack of patience I have not searched older posts for the answers to any of my questions/problems, sorry.
If anybody can help out with these I would hugely appreciate the effort.
To anybody who feels the need to flame at me for being underknowledged, please don't, but feel free to laugh at the fact that I've been using flashMX the whole time xD
Thanks!
Spen

Aha! seems so simple but yes, the transform panel seems to be just what I needed, I don't much understand the symbols panel, but will look into it, i presume I can save a selection as a symbol and then find it there? Thanks for the help Kurt

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