Animated Gif to Flash... Newbie

Hi all. I'm pretty experienced with using most of Adobe's
software with the glaring exception of Flash.
I've been asked to create an animated banner which I have
done as an animated gif from within PhotoShop. However I'm fairly
sure this sort of animation would be better created in Flash.
The animated gif is
here
Ive imported the PSD file into Flash CS3 but I'm not doing
very well at either selecting different layers or indeed moving the
photo and the text over a certain time span.
I imagine this sort of thing if easy to anyone with some
experience.
Can anyone offer any help on how to do this?
Also, the animated gif file size is about 150kb. Would the
flash file be significantly smaller?
Thanks.

Let Flash do that for you. First you have to create a symbol
out of the background image... a graphic symbol will suffice. A
quick way to do that is to place the image on the stage, right
click it, and select Convert To Symbol.
Then, place that symbol in a keyframe. Somewhere down the
timeline, right click on another keyframe and select Insert
Keyframe. The symbol should now extend from the first keyframe to
the one you just added. But for the keyframe you just created,
physically move the image to the slid over location you intend
Go back to the first keyframe, right click on it and select
Create Motion Tween. An arrow should now be joining the two
keyframes which should have blue-colored frames between them. Run
the movie.
For a competent developer, maybe a half hour tops starting
from scratch... it depends on how much content has to be added to
the image(s).

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