Flash Newbie Need Guidance

Yes, I am most likely over-confident that I can get what I
want to do done, but I have high hopes!
I am building a new site, and I am planning four flash
elements for the entire site. This is a wee bit presumptious in
that I dont really know flash yet, I do have the flash bible, and I
am willing to learn, so please guide me. I am good with PS and
Dreamweaver, so I am hoping I can have the same experience with
flash.
Element 1) My main page (
Which
Can be found here) needs a flash gallery that will move between
three seperate products. I am hoping to put in a transition between
the three products, and most importantly, I need it to work with a
database (SQL server 2000, I think) anyways, I believe you can do
this with XML and flash, basically I will create the image to be
pictured, it will be a static image that just gets displayed during
its time on screen, the only animation may be a Click Here type
thing to encourage clients to click the image. The xml of which
images to display will be updated by the DB, (I am working with a
DB pro who I think knows how to do this step) and then Flash pulls
the images, makes it so the link clicks to the product, and then if
nothing happens after say 15 seconds transitions to the next image.
I would like to put (as in what you can see online ) a FF, Rewind,
and Pause/Play button.
Any ideas on where to start to do all of that?
Element 2) A pic gallery for a particular product. Again, the
pics will be loaded by the database. Typically we sell two products
at the same time, so I need two "tracks" to display thumbs of the
various pictures. This way, my client clicks a thumbnail, it loads
a larger picture in a main window area ( I am envisioning a box
approx: 300 w X 200 H, with the tracks displayed underneath that)
then they click a thumb in the other track and it displays in the
larger window. Then they can click the larger pic to be taken to
element #4.
Element 3) Some tabs with titles like : Description Product
1, Description Product 2, Schedule, etc...
When they click a tab it display the info associated with
each tab. Again, data comes from a DB.
Element 4) Large Viewing Area - This one will be a basic box,
approx 750 x Something. Clients see larger picture of whatever they
clicked on (this btw will open in a new window) I would like this
to have a zoom feature, a move feature, and the ability to go to
any of the other pics that were contained within that track. The
Pics will again be pulled from a DB
Thats about it, a long list for someone so new, so any
suggestions on where I can start, find a tut, or even (possibly)
buy an already existing set of stuff that I can customize to my
look.
Appreciate the help
-Adam

Found this at another link. This is kind of how I imagine
element 4 but with a zoom and move feature.
http://www.westlight.net/

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