Need help with AS3 to play movies

Here is my what I'm working with: Flash CS3, AS3. I have 4
buttons and 4 movies (each button will be asigned to play one of
the 4 movies).
Not sure if this is the best layout but here is what's
included in my file. I have an Actions layer, 4 buttons (on 4
different layers), 4 embedded movies (on 4 different layers...all
about 5-8 seconds long). I'm sure this is simple but figuring out
the code for AS3 is like learning Chinese....I need major help with
this.
Lets say that my buttons have instance names like button1,
button2, button3, button4, and my movies have instance names like
movie1, movie2, movie3 and movie4. Here's the catch. I don't want
the movies viewable (or seen) until the user selects one of the
buttons. So if the user selects button1 the movie will appear (next
to the button without any contols...just a movie with a border) and
play. If the user hovers off or moves the mouse off the button, I'd
like for the movie to disappear.
Can someone please give me the the code needed so that when I
select button1 that it will play movie1, button2 w/ movie2....and
so on.
Thanks for your help!

Here is the link to the fla file.
http://joshhicks.com/flash/flashfile.html
I updated the link to the latest swf
http://joshhicks.com/flash/del2.html
I added stop(); to the 1st frame of each moive and this fixed
the movies from playing in the background unseen. If you can help
me with one last question...then the file will be complete. As of
now when you select one of the movies, it plays once thru and
starts back at frame one (loops) which is the way I want it to
play. But if you hover off one of the buttons while the movie plays
(lets say when the movie is showing the number 2) when you go back
to view the same movie, it will start where you left off (it will
start on the fram showing 2 and not 1). How can this be set up to
play from the beginning of each movie everytime you happen to go
back and click on the button? Thanks

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