Motion Tween grayed out

I'm doing a project for class and I'm not terribly savvy with Flash, so please bear with me as I try to give you the information I hope you'll need to help me out. I am using Flash CS5.
I am doing a kinetic typography project. I need letters to move along a path I drew with the pen tool. I drew the path. I have the letter. I converted the letter to a symbol. I created a guide layer and my pen tool path is on it. I click on the layer with the letter and the letter is just off the stage. I have 30 frames created and one initial keyframe in the first frame of the timeline.
When I right-click on the letter, Create Motion Tween is grayed out. When I right click on the layer containing the letter, the Create Motion Tween is grayed out. When I add another keyframe to the end (frame 30 in this case) and try to right-click, it's still grayed out. I've tried clicking on the guide, the letter, recreating the symbol... What am I missing?

You're welcome. One problem with the new tweening (hearsay on my part) is that they are not intuitive to use. With the classic tween it is a straightforward matter of start frame, end frame, and done, and it serves most purposes folks have for timeline-based tweening.
It is possible the approach you took is not the way to go when creating motion paths for the new tweens. Here's a link to a video that demos using the new tween with a motion path. It appears the path is not done the same way you attempted if you have the path on a separate layer...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-BIlFiy_DY
So it is looking more like the grayed out options were correct.
I would hope that if you showed your instructor the problem you were having you wouldn't get any disfavor shown for your solution, especially if you were taught to do what you were trying to do... and it might even teach your instructor something.

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Originally posted by:
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>> I have noticed a difference between motion tweens
created by the
>> context menu ( ie right clicking on a PC and
selection Create Motion
>> Tween) and creating two seperate frames and then
selecting motion
>> tween from the Properties bar.
>> These are represented on the time line ... both in
blue .... bowever
>> if you use the context menu you end up with a black
dot for each of
>> the 2 keyframes however the second keyframe doesnt
have a black
>> vertical line to the left of it.
>> What is the differnece here ? Has it got to do with
the sync option ?
>> For a visual reference check out ...
>>
http://www.silverstone.co.za/temp/timeline.gif
>>
>> <br><br> <img src="
http://www.silverstone.co.za/temp/timeline.gif">
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