HELP! Need navbar help!

Help! I'm really new to Flash and have just finished a course but was confused with the session on movie clips and buttons. I've been struggling through a navbar but have reached the point of frustration that I need help!

Here is what I'm attempting to do:

The menu at this link http://www.tombo.ca/tccmenu.fla uses text navigation for each webpage. In the initial navigation, I am trying to create the effect of the text button "swelling" on the rollover state (I have created a movie clip for each text button simulating this) and then beeping on the down state. The swelling and beeping works but it is temperamental. I have already created behaviour links to go to a web page for each text link. These all work.

Also, the button titled "equipment" has a dropdown menu which is where I really get mixed up. I created the dropdown menu as a movie clip where each item cascades below the other and, when each item is rolled over, it flashes and then a beep occurs on click. I can get this to work on its own but this is where I get extremely confused:

1) I would like the initial menu to not be so glitchy. I've done something wrong and I'm suspecting it has to do with the actionscript.
2) I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to get the dropdown menu to work within the main timeline. It is supposed to drop below "equipment" but there is already an action for the equipment button to go to "equipment.html". How do I also get the equipment submenu to drop below the equipment button on rollover...and work?

I hope I haven't created a mess. Thanks to anyone who can guide me!

I fixed the problem, but man alive you had enough stop actions to get to china and back 50,000 times. Their was a bunch of action script error's and problems. I fixed them all, lucky you...and I was able to make the menu work. Here is the URL to the fix...

http://www.JacobHaug.com/webforumz/files/zip/menufix.zip

Hope this is what you were going for, let me know if this is not what you wanted. Good Luck!!

Thank you so much for tackling my disaster!

I hope it wasn't too messy. For some reason, the class I took on navbars really confused me...and I guess that is obvious. I'll be going through your fix with a fine toothed comb to learn from your expertise.

Is there any way to work in Flash and do nice work without knowing alot of Actionscript? I think this is my downfall. I'm a designer and have such a hard time with coding...

Again, my humble thank you's for your wonderful work!

Well, I personally am an actionscript guru, but it is very possible to work together on a team doing website design, and you do all the drawing and animation, and he/she does al of the action scripting. Have a wonderful day, and let us know if their are any other problems...Good Luck!!