Flash help, please

Ok, I've gotta admit, I installed Ultra Dev and all the macromedia stuff a LONG time ago. I just never really messed with Flash any until recently.
What an application!
After working from one tutorial to another for several weeks, I finally decided to make something of my own. Well, I made a little dropdown menu. Nothing extra special, just a copycat of a menu at guistuff.com.

http://home.hiwaay.net/~cbutts/oddstuff/firstflash1.html

and I have a question or two.

1) when I finished I wanted to move the "entire" animation to the upper left corner. While I did figure out how to really mess up the animation. Lol!

this is one of them after a move, I figured out I needed to have more than just 1 frame selected, but I never got it right.

http://home.hiwaay.net/~cbutts/oddstuff/firstflash2.html

2) how do I change the size of the background? My little menu needs the background to be smaller and transparent.

these are prolly easy questions but, I didn't see anything that jumped out at me.

Modify-->Movie

Thanks Matt...
Like I said, "easy questions"...
I was looking all over the place for something that said "page setup" or anything of that nature.

I'll go see what damage I can do with what you just taught me

At least you have the motivation to get into it,

I got Flash about 1 month ago, and have yet to do anything fancy or even to hit ANY tuitorals.