Guides for 9-Slice Scaling?

I want to import artwork from Illustrator to do simple tweens. One of the options is to select Enable Guides for 9-Slice Scaling. I am not at all familiar with this feature in Flash. What is this used for? I am working with CS5.
Thanks.

Hi,
9-slice scaling allows you to specify how scaling is applied to specific areas of a movie clip. With 9-slice scaling, you can ensure that the movie clip looks correct when scaled. With normal scaling, Flash scales all parts of a movie clip equally, and in both the horizontal and vertical dimensions. For many movie clips, this equal scaling can make the clip’s graphics look strange, especially at the corners and edges of rectangular movie clips. This is often true of movie clips used as user interface elements, such as buttons.
If you have not used this option in Illustrator while creating/editing movie clip symbols, then you can ignore this option while importing the artwork.
For more details on 9-slice scaling please go through http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flash/cs/using/WSd60f23110762d6b883b18f10cb1fe1af6-7db9a.html
Thanks!
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