Flash`s Best Tweening/Animating Practices

Hi there (again),
Looking for best practices over the net I found only some obvious things such as organize your library, layers, frames, one layer for actions only and these kind of things.
What I want to know is something more... I don`t know, advanced, maybe?
Here is my context: I`m learning ActionsScript 3.0 now and with it Flash too. However I did already know the basics of Flash animation (tweening, creating buttons with gotoAndPlay functions and so on). Earlier I used to make some simple animation sites which didn`t use actionscripting (just stop, play, gotoAndPlay/Stop and that basic stuff).
Now I`m learning actionscript and I find myself in a completly new world on which I can make animations without needing the timeline that was the fundamental part of my earlier knowledge.
I ended up finding the TweenLite opensource library ( http://blog.greensock.com/tweenliteas3/ ) and now I even more end up making animations through actionscripting.
Now I find myself in doubt of when I should use frame animations and actionscript animations.
Let me give you an example.
Making site with between sections animations (something like fade out to leave a section and fade in other one). When you click a button you need to fadeout the current section and fade in the other one.
Well, usually I wouldn`t know how to do this. Now I know 2 ways (lol).
Method 1 (using frames): For each section I have a fadeIn animation (frames: x until x+10 with a stop() at the end) and a fadeOut (x+11 until x+21 with a gotoAndPlay(nextSection).
This way, when I click in a button I just change the nectSection string and run the play() command.
If I`m in a section it means it is stopped at the end of the FadeIn parte. Clicking a button will execute play() command and will show the fadeout animation. When it gets to the last frame it will go to the next section fade in frame.
If I`m in the middle of an animation the play() command wont disturb the animation. Only the nextSection will be updated. Keeping the site smooth.
Method 2(using actionscript): Here it isn`t important how do I do this since you can do it in many ways. But it is important to know that I can make it with 1 keyframe in the timeline. Can make it with coding only.
Can you guys see what I`m trying to explain? I just don`t know what is the best way to make my site with lots of buttons rollin rollout animations, sections, subsections and everything else since I can make frame animations and coding animations.
Is there any best practice for this ?
Thanks again,
Oscar

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