Animating boxes

Hello All I downloaded a gallery component from http://www.mr10.net/components/gallery/index.html. How ever I would like to customize the gallery to have and animation before the pictures load as seen here http://rfonline.x2game.com/ (please enter site and click on the gallery link twoard the bottom) I am not so much worried about the rotating part only interested in the part that appears to animate the boxes and make them grow and then the picture is loaded. I just can not figure it out. I know the gallery is packaged inside a component but there has to be some way to enable the gallery to behave that way us can see and edit the action scripts for the entire component. I have no experience in action script. Point me in the direction of a tutorial or some one who can help
would be greatly appreaciated. Please download the component if you are able to help.
thanx