Adobe Illustrator CS4 Auto Trace

Hey everyone.
I'm trying to convert some BMP or JPEGs into a nice vector. I've been reading around and it seems like auto trace is the function I want however I'm unable to find that tool in Illustrator. Can anyone help guide me to where this tool might be a maybe a quick overview/tutorial on how it works or an external tutorial?

Here is a Tutorial
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0043

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