ActionScript Help

[wrex]

Okay, I've spent at least 3 days experimenting, searching, yelling and whatever else in an attempt to make this work and no matter how close I think I am to getting there, it's always one more problem to stuff it up.

What I hope to achieve is this:

A simple menu, just plain text, 7 lines (Home, About Us, Products, etc) in a vertical list. When the user puts their mouse over each menu item, it should 'grow' to roughly 150% of it's current size. And I would like it to grow, not just suddenly double in size, then on mouseoff, shrink in size.

I know how to do this by making a motion tween and transforming the size, etc... but I don't want to have to do this seven times over. Surely there is Action Script that could easily do this for me.

I have looked at flashikit, ultrashock and search google for help, but I've failed miserably. I did start off playing around with a script from http://www.ultrashock.com/ff.htm?http://ww...tailed/165.html which sort of had the desired effect I was after (onMouseOver object grows, onMouseOff object shrinks). I managed to to remove the random 'shaking' and get the text to show up in the right spot, but I failed to make the text itself be the link (I don't want that shape there, just text, in a locked position). I have sinced found out, that no matter how hard I try, I won't be able to make that work at all, so what I'm asking now is:

What ActionScript is there that I could use on a button, so onMouseOver, it smoothly grows to 150% in size, then onMouseOff, it smoothly shrinks back to 100% size? I've spent ages looking and I'm asking for help as a last resort, but I've got NFI how to achieve this.

any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!!