Please help!! Please help!! I will be so grateful!

My project is a site for a children's novel which is in stores like Barnes and Noble right now. I'm nearly a week late because I had no idea actionscript 3.0 was so different. Usually I'm a designer, not a coder. I've done so much to learn this really complex language on my own, but I'm totally stuck! If you can help me I'll attach your name in on the signature embed of the .swf. Or something! I don't know what. Forever thanks from me for eternity! I mean it.

So far my project has 5 sections and a menu. These work fine.

Idea behind the site architecture and theme is:

A huge vine acts as the site's "world".
This vine animates as new sections are triggered by a menu
Each page section exists at a different location along the vine.
The vine is almost as a path which the user travels along while reaching new sections
(ex. section1 is at the bottom of the vine, section 3 is halfway along the vine, section 5 is at the end of the vine)

So to say for clarity: The site is supposed to be a giant vine that moves along the user as though a path, along this path the user is led as though physically traveling between one section to another.

I hope that makes sense.

Please let me know if i'm not clear!

MY QUESTION AND UTTER CONFUSION:


Currently my script has a menu which calls forward each proper section.
How do I shape my script to:

Make my menu buttons not only call forward sections but also to
Set up some sort of trigger
which runs a script that:
a. checks current page (section visible) and
b. checks the intended page (new section triggered from menu)
c. considers this information to determine its behavior
d. animates accordingly from place of current section to place new section.

Please please please please help!!!!
Any little bit you might know will be so welcome.
This is so hard for a regular old designer whose most complex language previously was HTML!

thank you so much for reading...