Animating a button with actionScript

I'm fairly stumped on this one - but probably quite simple to fix.
I need to animate the scale of a button with actionScript 2.0. I've inherited a project that was done with actionScript 2.0 and have decided to stay with this generation rather than rewrite the whole project. Anyway - I've created a sound object, it plays audio from the library and 3 seconds after it starts playing, I want to animate the "next" button and make it pulse to attract the users attention.
Doing this by putting the button in a movie clip is not working as I am losing it's button states and besides it's probably far more tighter to program it.
When the user rolls over the button it stops pulsing but still retains it's up, over and down states.
Any easy answer?

Thanks for your help Ned.
I ended up making an advanced button with movie clips and using programming for all the states.
Movies are so much easier to control than buttons.
But you have raised something I had overlooked...setTimeout( )
I was using setInterval( ) and then doing clearInterval( ) within the function so it would only loop once, which of course was problematic if the user beat the 'clearInterval' code by clicking on the button too early.
Actually used setInterval( ) to delay all sound on the project - now going to re-program all that.
Thanks

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Greg-
Good Lead - Thanks.
I learned that having skinned components (which this uses)
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in Flash. So i''ll try explaining it better. Please bare with me.
In my Flex application i have 2 different kind of buttons.
One is static and that was pretty easy skinning it with the
.swf and .css examples i found.
Second one though, has a rotating animation on Over state
which changes the dimensions of the button.
In my flash file I made a movieClip (Mybutton) where i have
the four states of my button in 4 different movieclips along the
timeline. I labeled 4 frames according to the button state it
holds. i then used make Flex component command to export the swf to
Flex. And i actually see it in my custom components in Flex, but of
course i see it as a movieclip and not a button.
How do i tell Flex that this is a button and define its skin
states from the frame labels in flash?
I did try the @embed source skinning a Flex button with
separate swf but it's totally messed up with the animation the swf
holds. It completely distorts when i place mouse over it.
I don't know where I'm going wrong, can somebody help me
out??

Animated Flash Buttons Not Working Right

I'm updating my website and my menu buttons have an animation on the mouseOver. A simple animated button with the "Up", "Over", "Down" and "Hit" keyframes.
www.brenda-nies.com will show the effect of my menu buttons and the effect I want to keep. Part of my updates are switching to AS3 and that's where my problem comes in. You can't see it on the website I gave you, but in my working file, when I test it (in IE8), everything starts out fine when I first rollover my button, the animation runs through it's cycle and stops. However, if I press down on the mouse button, the animation starts over. The same when I release the mouse button, the animation starts over. I want the animation to run through 1 cycle and stop, then stay stopped until I roll off the button.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong....or not doing?

I appreciate you help, you helped me on another question before as well. However, for this particular question, I'm am already doing what your saying, at least I think I am.
I've attached a screenshot below of what I currently have. The first layer, is all text, so...the "About Me". The second layer is my animation. That blue and black bar is actually hidden behind that grayed out "black and wood" area. That blue and black bar is also the "Button_Bar" layer in my timeline. When I rollover "About Me", that blue bar rises up and the edges fade. That all works fine and dandy. However (and I'm sorry if I'm repeating), let's say I want to go to the "About Me" section. When I click "Down" the mouse button, the animation starts over - the blue bar disappears for a split second and rises up from behind that aforementioned area. The same when I release the mouse button - the bar disappears for a split second and rises up. And I have to mention that not once did I roll off my button, yet the animation replayed with each mouse event.
I thought maybe it was my file so I did a test and started fresh with a brand new document. Same thing is happening. I don't have any script, except for the stop script in my movie clip. Should I be using some kind of script?
As for the movie clip, I created it using a shape tween. I also don't want anything in the "Up" state.

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