Flash / Illustrator image help

I am a senior developer that has inherited the beginnings of
a Flash project. I have no experience in Flash but I have coded a
number of GUI's in other languages.
The project is a conversion of an application that used Adove
SVG Viewer to display a map that has several types of icons; each
icon has a text box next to it with a name. When one of the icons
is clicked, a request is sent to a service for information on the
location for that particular name. The map has several layers, the
base map image, 3 images of different icons and a boundaries image.
The new application at this point is in Flash 8. The images
have been converted with Adobe Illustrator to .ai files. The
application shows the finished images and allows several of the
layers to be shown or hidden through a context menu. This is the
state that I come into the project.
I need to retrieve the name for each individual icon when it
is clicked on.
I need to change the color of the individual icon when it is
clicked on.
I have been scouring the web for a tutorial or information on
how to do this have been coming up blank. I have ran across
information that suggests I may need to convert each individual
icon to a symbol and then work with the symbol. However, as the
application is now I can see the the names associated with the
icons when use the Debug-> List Objects and List Variables menu.
As a variable I see the following:
Movie Clip: Target="_level0.layers.stations"
Edit Text: Target="_level0.layers.stations.instance1"
text = "ALPHA\r",
As an object I see the following:
Movie Clip: Frame=1
Target="_level0.preview.instance213.stations"
Shape:
Edit Text:
Target="_level0.preview.instance213.stations.instance214" Variable=
Visible=true Text = ALPHA\r"
Alpha is the text I am after.
This leads me to think that it is possible to work with the
icon and text, without having to create the symbols.
Also, the Adobe SVG Viewer FAQ suggested that I should be
using Flex instead of pure Flash.
Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Although I do
not mind going through tutorials and reading documentation, it
would be a great time saver to have some information on the best
way to do this.
Thanks in advance.

I was just going to tell you that there's nothing wrong with the code, so if you found a path issue, that's great. One other thing... that is all AS2 code, so if you need to post again, be sure to select the AS2 forum.

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> can i manipulate them, to animate them? If so How?
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