ten years on from this posting, some of the links are now out of date… However, even more fundamental to the usefulness of this lot is what has become of Flash and Actionscript post Steve Jobs’ iPad ;-)
The first tutorial I found on this was from kirupa.com, an interesting site from an interesting guy!
Googling Around
There are others, too:
Paying Cash Money
There are also a few nice looking extensions for this, including one at www.flashloaded.com
The search term seems to be Flash Panorama
Free Stuff
There’s a thread on the Flash forum
Free Extension
This is the one I used, at sephiroth
There’s also a bit about replacing the word ‘static’
Other Ancient stuff:
Image viewer, too, which used to be at www.actionscripts.org…