Larger Video Play Buttons in Flash

How do you get larger video play/pause buttons when importing a video in to Flash. My current buttons are too small and I need to find larger ones. How do you do that?

I've tried using different flvplayback skins and the playback buttons are all way too small. I tried following steps on how to use the Video UI Component but it doesn't seem to work. I added a "Play" button to the stage but didn't know what to name the instance of it and then how to do the Action Scripting for it. There were examples of Action Script and I tried the examples and they didn't work.

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I have attached the file that is causing me the problem. Basically I wrote a vi that can read a .TDMS file on the target RT PXI, and view it in a graphical format with the ability to view multiple channels.
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