Creating Flash Video

Hello Everyone and thanks for your help in advance. I am extremely new to Flash (using CS4) and want to create flash videos for display in web pages. I have used a few of the wizards and have gotten some rough, very amateurish looking results, but at least they work. I owuld now like to create a more professional looking product that has a nice looking player skin, a thumbnail preview that is typically included, and some sort of "Click to Play" button. Would someone be able to point me to a tutorial of this or walk me through the basic steps? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here are a few links that might help you
Creating skins:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flv_tutorial_pt2.html
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/ - check the skinning section
Creating thumbnails:
http://animation.about.com/od/flashanimationtutorials/ss/flashlesson24.htm - dont miss out on the page numbers. Take the complete tutorial
Hope it helps

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> Yes this video is much better.. the only thing is I
already had an
> FLV file I created with another program.. not adobe.. I
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