Objects Blowing in the Wind

Hey guys,
I was wondering how I could do this in Flash.
Posted above is the start of my website's title animation.
I have a bunch of letters which I am going to hang off a tree branch or some fixed bar, with string.
A gentle breeze will blow against them causing them to rock (and therefore rotate) gently at different rates according to how heavy each letter is and how long the string is.
I'm hoping there is a way to assign a weight to each letter and just introduce a wind vector.
If there is no easy way to do this, do I have to make movie clips for each letter and calculate for myself how much movement there will be for each letter?
I am very inexperienced with Actionscript, so I'd appreciate as much assistance as you could spare me.
I have CS5.
Thanks in advance.

And this makes it a bit clearer...

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