Flash CS3 interface: The movie explorer

Hi there,
I am new to this forum and new to flash as well. I've been
playing and doing lots of Swish Max and recently wanted to try
Flash CS3. The thing is that I can not wonder how to get the
complete tree structure of a movie. I am lost without it. I've seen
the movie explorer only shows one level of dependency and that is
to complicated to follow.
Can someone explain to me how could I get something like
that?:
Here is the
image...
What I want is a general overview of
all the objects in my movie, but showing all the
dependencies (e.g. One is contained into another, and this one
contains another one... )
(I would also like to know how can we make appear in this
structure the objects named by it's instance name and not by the
names Symbol1, Symbol2 etc (not only the Instance next to it-
Symbol1 <myInstanceName>, but the instance's name directly
and all alone)
Thank you very much.
Martin

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