Importing 4 Glass Effect Buttons in FLEX from Photoshop?

Hi,
I made 4 glass effect buttons in Photoshop CS3, for mouse up,
over, click and out. I want to use these buttons in FLEX by
importing them and relate them with these mouse events.
How do I do that?
Thanks

I did figure out a work around to both problems.
I still use a timer but now I set the constructor to fire every 1 frame. While I have not been able to attach a listener directly to the child movieclips that tells me when the MovieClip reaches the last frame, I did find that I'm able to test for this state without the listener. Each time my Timer calls the listener, I have it check to see if the child in question has reached the last frame or not. If so, I stop the MovieClip. Works great now.
private var btnMovieClip:MovieClip;
btnMovieClip.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btnMovieClipListener);
private var btnClicked:String = "";
public function btnMovieClipListener(event:Event):void {
if(event.target.name == "myInstance") {
btnClicked = event.target.name;
btnMovieClip.gotoAndPlay(0);
var timer:Timer = new Timer(1);
timer.start();
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, checkFrames);
private function checkFrames(event:TimerEvent):void {
if(btnClicked == "myInstance") {
if(btnMovieClip.currentFrame == btnMovieClip.totalFrames) {
btnMovieClip.gotoAndStop(0);
event.target.stop();
event.target.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, checkFrames);

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