Huge Project!! Really need Help!!!

INTRO: (Please read )
Hey guys, I've already made one thread in the Apache forum on how to set up a server for my well webmaster's club (don't really have an official name). I'm also in Yearbook. While I assume here that not many of you here care too much about yearbook. To be honest I never did either until, well, I joined it myself. It's actually a bigger thing that it's percieved to be. Aperantly everyone in the yearbook is an overachiever and a work freak. I fall into that category so I guess that's why they took me in. Now that's just a little note there that I tend to throw in so you guys know where I'm coming from. At our school, I'm considered the best programmer, and all around tech savy guy. So they made up a really important position for me. I'm the Digital Media Editor, anyway what I'm supposed to do this year is create a supplement for the yearbook which will contain videos, extra pictures, and other stuff like it. The yearbook has never actually tried this before but other schools have, and I believe we did and it didn't work out a few years back, before my time : ). I'm getting to the point of my problem now, how do I make an Interactive CD that looks proffesional? I mean when I signed up I really didn't realize what I was getting myself into and I feel that putting up a crappy presentation just wont do!

MY SOLUTION:
This might not be the best but I figured I should try and make in Flash and use macromedia director as the authoring software. Please note I have never in my life touched director and simply have it for kicks (umm yea I admit it, I'm a bit of a piro, I hope you guys aren't offended, I am a student after all). The other part is Flash. I've made little tween animations before and used Flash 4 a lot a few years ago, but never really made a site that's fully made in Flash . Yea it's a bit of a problem, but I hope to learn which is why I came here . The GUI on the cd would actually resamble Full Sail web site . We really want the guy fading in like that (I've done a few green screens before but nothing spectacular). So I do also have experience with Adobe Premiere to boot which I hope will help.

MY QUESTIONS:

1. Is there a better solution for what I'm doing, besides Director and Flash?
2. After looking at the full sail web site, how should I begin? What sources should I use? And most of all how do I organize?
3. What's the best format of compression to use on movies when dropping into flash?
4. Does anyone have good links on how to use Director? Maybe books they read and liked.
5. Any suggestions, coments, and help is more than welcome!!!

PS: The "Editor in Chief" (she's a level above me) wants to see something working in 3 weeks !!!!!

Please guys I need your help.

Well I hope I get some replies tomorow. Next time I'll note to post up threads ahead of time. My plan is actually to get all the planning done this week. And this is only one step of the big picture which is budgeting, content, and distribution.

My biggest question is not nceessisarly on how I should do it, but how I should organize and break up a project like this. Meaning how do I organize scenes, and make it easy to modify? Should I make symbols out of everythig? Do I need flash coding experience to make something like that?