Question on animation

Hi, me again.  I was moving on with my little project, and I am trying to think of the best way to do something.  So, on the user input, I am going to call up animated letters for each letter inputted (At the moment it is working with still images).
So, should I create everything in one script, or should I create a flash movie for every letter of the alphabet?  I would prefere to do the latter, but my worry is that this means each letter will only be limited to its animation within its own stage, and will not pertrude onto the main stage.  Ideally, I want everything to look natural, not as if each letter is limited in its animation.
Whats the best way I could do this?  I was thinking about making a script for every letter within the same file, but I am not sure if this involves packages or everything like that?  I havnt learnt this yet, but I am willing to give anything a try based on professional advise.
Any advise appreciated as usual.
cheers

Generally, when I was using the jpg images for each letter, this was to get used to what I needed to do for my intended goal.  Really, I want the user to type in their name, and each letter of their name will animate.  This animation will be done instandard flash, as I am unsure I will be able to do it all in as3.
So, for the images of each letter, I had 26 image files.  I was wondering if I should do the same for the amination.  Create 26 seperate animations for each letter, and then load them in like i did the images.  But then my worry about doing this was stated in the original post.
The other option was to start using packages, so everything is working on one stage.  I could create a class for each letter, and perform the animation in flash within each class.  I could then instantiate the classes within the main stage class as needed.  This would mean each letter was not restricted to its own seperate stage, as would be the case if they were their own swf.
I could do it all in one class also, but I feel this would be too much for one class, and defies the point of oo programming.
I was just wondering how you would do something like this?
cheers

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