Mask / Masking Using an image with transparent bg

Flash CS4
AS2
Okay - so I must be missing something here -but perhaps people here can help me.
I have a flash movie, and I want to apply a mask to it. The mask I want to apply, or rather, the "shape" of the mask I want to apply is an external image that was made in photoshop. The shape is an irregular one with a bunch of jagged edges. the shape itself is solid, with a transparent background. I've tried saving it as a PNG with transparent b/g, and I've tried importing the PSD file directly into Flash - however - when I go to use this shape for a mask, the mask that is applied is an entire rectangle bounding the imported image - rather than along the edges.
Hopefully you can see what I'm trying to do here, and perhaps offer some insight on how I can get this image into flash (let's stick with the idea that the jagged edged manner of the image is too difficult to recreate inside of flash)...
Thanks for your help!

okay...
so I did this now - and now there is no bounding box - there is no box at all - and it's done a reverse mask....
okay - so let me explain the movie.
The movie is a page peel - it peels from the bottom right corner, peels back, and up to the left across the whole page - So basically, I've taken this image of a corner peel - and using motion tween - made the peel larger and larger - and effectively what it does it looks like it's peeling from the corner this parchment paper with a jagged edge... to reveal a blank parchment below it. So I'm trying to set the parchment paper as a "mask" to hide the parts of the animated "peel" that aren't on the parchment - effectively it will make it look like a full page peel away... which is why I need the mask to be the parchment document, rather than the bounding box around it - because then it looks like it's peeling away a transparent square film that is laying on top of this parchment image...
okay... so with that more explained I'm hoping....
Now - I've used the setmask() as outlined in the adobe flash documentation - and now there is no bounding box - but instead wherever the peel is during the animation the parchment shows under that peel animation, and no where else - so it's done a reverse masking... and if I reverse the parameters outlined in the documentation (which isn't right) the peel still shows, but now the parchment doesn't show at all... ugh... either way I still see the full size peel which is now larger than any bounding box that was there before...

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