In no particular order as pre-requisite to ActionScripting

Draggable movie clip

Here’s the code, as posted in the Macromedia forum


on (press) { startDrag (this, true);
}
on (release) { stopDrag ();
}


Nuts and Bolts

MX Basics

Flash 5 (I know, I know) Cartooning

For an introduction to animation there are some nice exercises about the timeline starting at p.96, including such gems as grouping rather than creating a symbol:

Only one object can be tweened per layer

Flash Tutorials at Template Monster

Not sure if thee are going to be of any use, but here’s a link
anyway.

Shape Tweening

Yes, this is definitely looking useful for intro level stuff, like Shape Tweening

And there’s another one at Inside Graphics

Motion Tween

Some of these are truly dire (like a time warp), but who knows if they’ll be useful

Components

Macromedia’s Component tutorial
... and other stuff

There are obviously less bits around in MX versus MX 2004, however there also appear to be bit which can be downloaded

Macromedia has a tutorial on Media Components

And the Community MX one was quite handy

Ultraedit Shananigans

The bits to change in the hex code