Never mind.... it looks like I found the answer on this forum.
Someone named Daniel explained that all we need to do is hold the Command key and then we can resize a symbol with all it's components uniformly. Doh.... I should have tried that.
Anyhow, this is great. It makes all the difference. I believe I'm pretty well good to go now with using Hype as a replacement for Flash. Fingers crossed.
Sorry about the dumb question.