Classic Tween breaking apart

I'm attempting to animate a guy waving. I have the bicep, forearm, and hand as different symbols on different layers. I insert a keyframe on each layer and put the symbols where they need to go and then click create clasic tween on each of those layers. The problem is that they wont stay together the 3 symbols break off of each other. It worked fine earlier today but I didnt save and had to do it again. I'm not even moving it very far from its original position. Any help would be appreciated.

To create a movieclip (animated or otherwise), on the main menu bar choose Insert -> New Symbol and choose it to be a Movieclip in the drop down options. Select okay and a window opens with an empty timeline and content area.
You can build an animation into that timeline. So let's say you animate the hand waving back and forth in that timeline using Classic tweens.
Exit out of the symbol editing mode by choosing Edit -> Edit Document. You should now have a movieclip in the library with the hand animation in it. If you take that and place it on the stage and test the move you should see the hand animating. Remove it after testing.
Now you can take the forearm and create a movieclip symbol out of it - just place the forearm graphic(s) in one layer of it, and the hand movieclip in another layer. You will not be creating an animation in this movieclip, but you will be using this to create another movieclip where you animate the forearm/hand object as a single entity. You will end up with the forearm moving as well as the hand, but since the hand is affixed to the forearm it will stay where you planted it (at the wrist).
Another way to create a movieclip is to place the object you want to animate on the stage, right click it, and choose Convert To Symbol... select Movieclip, and then you can doubleclick it to open it up to edit it on the stage.

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> When I break apart a bitmap and use the eyedropper to
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> in a shape, I notice that the bitmap also stays in the
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> Will this become a permanent part of my Flash
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> accessible for this file? I opened a new file and it did
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> it. I just want to make sure I understand the purpose of
it displaying in the
> color panel. What is the point of this?
>
> Thanks.
>

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