Mmmm I have a layout and I want to use Flash (although my knowledge on Flash is extremely limited i.em the things I can only do are: Make an animated ball move + add music to an image).

I was wondering, because I have images changing when people hover over certain links, that it would load faster in Flash?

Does anyone know a tutorial on how to do this in Flash...?

Have you considered using Swish? It can be bought from swishzone.com, it's easy to use and produces decent Flash animation.

But be warned that it's easy to tell Swish animation from Macromedia Flash.

no. user javascript rollovers. Don't use flash unless you need it

If all you're doing is changing images on link hover use CSS