How do I turn a small video into a linkable button?

Question

I'm new to Dreamweaver, so please forgive me if this is a noob question.   I've done some searching, but I can't seem to find a simple answer.
I'm a video editor building a new site for myself.  I'd like to have some thumbnail-size videos that work as buttons to open a new page and play the full-size version.  I can create these button-sized videos as either Quicktime or Flash and place them in an AP div to position them where I want. But how do I make them clickable?   I can't seem to draw an image map over them. 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Some of the folks here would discourage Flash navigation, but one way to do it easily would be to export your small movie from Premiere CS4 as an *.FLV or *.F4V. Start a new Flash document and make the Background color the same as the area on the Web page you want the video to appear. Import your video to the stage then create a new layer in Flash above the layer your video is on. Create a button in Flash. On the last of the four button key frames draw a colored rectangle. The color only represents the area that will be mouse sensitive and will not show over your video. Drag the button to the Stage and make sure the colored area (that will not show, as I mentioned) is large enough. Adjust if necessary. Give your button an instance name. Click the keyframe on the Flash timeline on the button layer and open the Action Script panel. Paste in (if monkey_bump is your instance name):
monkey_bump.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDownHandler);
function mouseDownHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/"));
I wasn't trying to be smart @ss with the webpagesthatsuck URL. According to Vince, Flash navigation sucks.
One could be creative in Premiere by placing a PhotoShop "mat" over the video in Premiere prior to export. The PhotoShop document could have a transparent center and an outward color that matches the color of your website. This way you could have a custom shaped navigation video.