Button Controlling Motion Tweens

Question

I am wanting to create a button that, when pressed, will make an image move along the X axis.  However, I want several other buttons to move that object along the X-axis to other locations regardless of where it is currently.
I want the object to move from one spot to a second spot, stop, and then move from that new location to either its previous spot or a new spot.
Basically having multiple buttons controlling where 1 or more image goes.  I have seen banners that will scroll horizontally when you click different Menu buttons.  The banner slides along the X-axis and stops to reveal the name of the new page on the banner (i.e. Home, About Us, Contact Us, etc.).  When another menu button is pressed, the banner slides again to reveal the new title page name (ie. Home, etc).
I am coming from a Graphic Designer point of view and not a very good scripter.  Please assume I know nothing about scripting (I don't understand the language at all but I know how to set it up properly).

Answer 1

For the example you offered, that control scheme can be realized using Actionscript tweening of the x property of the movieclip(s).  Each tween would be triggered by a button and would start the object moving from its current x position and move it to a predefined x position.
Here is a simple example using the AS3 built-in Tween class of Flash.  You will get better performance using a third party tweening engine such as TweenLite.  The buttons are movieclips with instance names of "btn0" and "btn300" and the movieclip being movied is named "mc".  So if you create these three objects and assign them the names, the following should make the mc move when you click the buttons.
import fl.transitions.Tween;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
var tw:Tween; // declare the tween
mc.x = 150; // some starting position
// assign values that the mc will move to for each button
btn0.finalX = 0;
btn300.finalX = 300;
// assign event listeners for the buttons, they can use the same handler function
btn0.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, moveMC);
btn300.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, moveMC);
function moveMC(evt:MouseEvent):void {
     var finalX:Number = evt.currentTarget.finalX;
     tw = new Tween(mc, "x", Regular.easeOut, mc.x, finalX, 1, true );
If you have questions about the code, try researching it using the Flash help documentation.  Everything is explained there and learning to the help documents is as imprtant as anything else.
The tweening could also be done using other code-based approaches, but what's shown above is probably the sdimpolest to get you started.