Flash CS5.5 iOS scale and arrange content on device rotation

Hello All-
I am new to developing iPad/iPhone apps, and am currently using Flash CS5.5 to create an iPad app for a client. Basically, the app is a multipage form with tons of radios, text fields, and text areas. It has a header and footer with some vector graphics. So here is my problem.
In my publish settings, i have "Auto-Rotation" checked, which works fine. The native dimensions of the app is H: 1024 W:768, so when it rotates now, it just scales everything so all the content when in landscape mode fits on the screen. But what I want is when the iPad is rotated, I want the header and footers to scale to fit the entire screen, and I want all the form areas to stay the same size. This obviously would require the user to have to "pan" up and down to see all the fields of the form.
I attempted to use the "code snippets" to accomplish this, but it really made things quite screwy. If anyone has any sites, tutorials, or groups that address this, or if you know how to fix this, I would GREATLY appreciate your feedback.
Thank you for your time,
- Scott V.

Thank you for your responses they were helpful.
I found this article, http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/screen_orientation_apis.html , which definitely helped. I ended up going with what they suggested in it, by creating two seperate movieclips that are designed for either landscape mode, or portrait mode. Pretty simple fix. Easier then rearranging all the form elements dynamically.
Thank you,
Scott

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