How do I create a simple button animation?

I am very new to flash although I did do some movies in Adobe Live Motion when it was available. I am trying to recreate a nav bar that I did in Live Motion, in Flash CS4. I have done a little research but found no direct answers.
I have a simple graphic of a tin can. (I will end up using 8 different instances of this graphic for my nav bar.) There is a line of text above the tin can. I want to make this all a button that when mouse is over the can rotates once clockwise and the text changes color. When mouse is out it goes back to the normal up state. When clicked I want to go to a web page.
That is it. If I can learn how to do one I will be fine.
I would be ever so grateful for help with this.

I did, by the way, change the publish settings to as2. Thanks for that info!
All works but the mouseover. The tin can continuously rotates instead of just once. The text changes color ok but flickers (from up to over) - again and again until mouseout. And the link works when clicked on either text or tin can.
So everything you gave me was correct but I have done something wrong with the over animation.
My movie clip is as follows. The instance is named btn1.
layer 3 = actions layer
layer 2 = text
layer 1 = tin can
frames 1 - 5 labeled "up" with stop action in frame 1.
frames 6 - 10 labeled over with tin can (layer 1) being a 5 frame tween using 1 rotation from the property panel
Scene 1 has 3 layers.
layer 1 = background - locked
layer 2 = btn1 movie clip
layer 3 = actions - with your code in frame 1
Again, any help will be appreciated.

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