how to move a symbol + reference guide

Hi,

I apologize for being a noob.  I installed Animate one week ago and have a prototype due in 3 days, so I'm just going to ask:

1)  How do I move/transform/translate a symbol from code?  Either the timeline, the symbol itself, or another symbol would work.  From within the symbol, I thought I could do something like:

sym.css('left',100);

but it doesn't work.

2)  Is there a reference guide listing everything that you can do to a symbol?  I see examples like:

sym.play();

sym.hide();

sym.animate({opacity: 0}, 500);

but I can't find a list of all of my options.

Or is it anything that I can do with either javascript or jQuery?

Sorry again for giving up and asking.

Thanks

-Sherry