Thumbnails as buttons

Is there any way to pull images from the timeline in Encore to use as thumbnail menue buttons? I use DVDlab from time to time and this can be done quite easily. I havn't had enough time to really use and get to know all the workings of Encore but I have searched the forums as well as the help docs. Currently I render stills from Premiere to use as picture buttons. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Don

Just a note of interest. I used auto chapters (set for every 2 or 3 minutes) and set poster frames within the chapters to use with menus. On the last poster frame I crossed over to the next listed chapter, example; chapter 17 chapter 18 poster 17 on the timeline. When previewed the timeline hits chapter 18 and jumps to the next chapter missing everything in between. I didn't notice this until after I burned and labeled several DVDs. When I found the problem I eventually went back to Encore and deleted chapter 18 and everything worked well.
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I would like to start out by saying I am very new at this and am working on a portfolio website in flash CS4 and currently getting help through the tutorials over at Lynda.com. Now my problem is In the portfolio section I want a preview of the pics like a thumbnail on the bottom with a scroll bar to scroll through them all, but at the same time I would like to have buttons to navigate through these photos at the same time. I have got it to work, the only problem is let say i'm using the buttons to navigate through but then stop and go to the scroll bar on the bottom and click on one three of four pictures in front of where I left off, The image loads and everything is fine but when I go back to the buttons it continues off from where it last left off not where I clicked on the scroll bar. Not sure if you can follow that but if not ask questions I really have no clue on how to do this so any help is greatly appreciated.
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//load the thumbnails...
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thumbLoader.load(new URLRequest("smallthumbs/portfolio01.jpg"));
thumbLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, thumbLoaded);
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function loadMainImage1(event:MouseEvent):void {
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var thumbLoader2:Loader = new Loader();
thumbLoader2.load(new URLRequest("smallthumbs/portfolio02.jpg"));
thumbLoader2.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, thumbLoaded2);
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thumbLoader2.x=118;
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thumbLoader2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadMainImage2);
function loadMainImage2(event:MouseEvent):void {
largeUILoader.source="largeimages/portfolio02.jpg";
var thumbLoader3:Loader = new Loader();
thumbLoader3.load(new URLRequest("smallthumbs/portfolio03.jpg"));
thumbLoader3.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, thumbLoaded3);
function thumbLoaded3(event:Event):void {
//add the thumbnail to the allthumbnails instance
allthumbnails.addChild(thumbLoader3);
thumbLoader3.x=236;
myscrollpane.update();
thumbLoader3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, loadMainImage);
function loadMainImage(event:MouseEvent):void {
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var thumbLoader4:Loader = new Loader();
thumbLoader4.load(new URLRequest("smallthumbs/portfolio04.jpg"));
thumbLoader4.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, thumbLoaded4);
function thumbLoaded4(event:Event):void {
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function loadMainImage(event:MouseEvent):void {
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