Creating an animated outline of an image?

I searched for quite some time but could not find a solution or tutorial on how to accomplish this.
I'm looking for a way to take an image (a logo, or even a text image) and have a "glowing" white point trace the outline of the image from one starting point all the way around the image to where it began. Once the navigation around the image is complete the outline will remain in place (or it can disappear and the original outline remains). I'm not sure if Flash is the best tool for this or not.
Any help is appreciated!

Maybe you could use an activex control from Macromedia or Flash or Microsoft animation.

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