Animated Horizontal Spark List

Hello,
how could I animate a Horizontal Spark List and enable the Mouse-Wheel for it ?
I like to scroll with the intervall size of the page, to get started with it I enabled snapping and set the stepsize to thewidth of the itemRenderer/List.
How to animate this now ?
http://wensauer.info/flex/AnimatedHorizontalSparkList/ (view source enabled)
As you can see when you reach the last item and keep scrolling there is some pixels overhead so that you can scroll the content freely.
How to fix this ?
Colclusion:
* how to enable mousewheell for the horizontal scroller (swap function with the vertical?)
* how to animate a spark list
* how to remove pixel overhead
Any Help is welcome!
Marc

Ok,
I solved some questions myself.
It is working so far to a certain extend.
When I scroll to fast with the mouse wheel the auxilary slider gets out of sync with the List.
Is there a way to only start a new animation once the current is finished ? can I lock it somehow or put them into a queue?
http://www.wensauer.info/flex/AnimatedHorizontalSparkListII/
The best way woulkd be that I can use the scrollbar of the scroller, but when I enable snapping, the animation isnt working anymore.
Idea ? Noone ?

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                        change="userOptionsChange(event)">
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                        <s:XMLListCollection id="troubleShootProvider" />
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                </s:List>
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hopefully that makes sence...

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Bindable]
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