Dynamic Map

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I'm pretty new to flash mx, at least the action script part, but I figure flash is the way to go here as I've seen examples and flash it what they done it in. Any way I have an access database with a table that has all the US zips and lat an lon values, and I have another table with stores that relate by the zip. I want to take a US map and populate it with dots corresponding with the locations in the store table, thus a new store gets added then a new dot appears, now I thought of ways to do this mabie adding a X and Y value in the zip table for each zip code according to where it would be located on the map, but is that the only way as I would have to put them for every zip 42,000 round about, that would be a lot of work, seems there would be an easier way I just have no idea where to start anyone seen this done before? and if adding x and y values was the only way to go haw would I call that in actionscript to make a movieclip dot and loop it through so that it places for each record in the store table. I'm just lost at this point so I'll leave it to the experts! I'm using asp as backend and flash MX.