Masking a fading image

I hope someone can help me with my project. I'm learning
flash but still labeled as a newbie. I'm not sure if this effect is
even possible but I will ask. The problem is I created a flash
movie with a matrix style text effect that scrolls down the page. I
also created a jpeg involving basic random #s (0s and 1s) that
cover the entire page. All I intend to do is have the matix code
animation running in the foreground while the movement of the mouse
reveals the jpeg #s page in the form of a small radius around the
mouse (the mouse still has to be showing). This is the tricky part
that I cannot find anywhere, I need that mask effect to show at a
fading pace. If the mouse moves over a certain portionof the
background jpeg, that portion will show as soon as the mouse is
hovered over it at 100% but start to fade. The fading has to be at
a constant pace (say an overall period of 2 seconds), but the
revealing effect has to be only when the mouse moves.
I'm not even sure how to implement the masking part of this
because the origonal flash movie project is over 15 layers by
itself. Another problem I may see coming is whether I could even
used my finished flash project as a background in an html page. I
will create the page using dreamweaver mx and already created the
origonal flash movie with flash mx.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Joe

Your basic issue is getting HTML to appear over top of an
embedded SWF. If you want to make the SWF literally a background
image like using the CSS rule "background," that is not possible.
If, however, you just need some piece of HTML to appear over top of
a Flash movie(common need is a drop down menu -- like adobe.com
homepage), then there are workarounds, but they are not fun and not
always reliable:
http://www.google.com/search?q=html+over+flash&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-U S:official&client=firefox-a

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