Can someone help me with this carousel script pls

Hi, I’m using this script here: http://gotoandlearn.com/files/carousel3.zip
and making a website out of it. However I need to create 5 buttons at the bottom of the page that will act like a main navigation bar, and clicking on these buttons will act same as if the rotating icons themselves were clicked, ie button0 will make item0 zoom in, button2 will make item2 zoom in and etc… i got the zoom in working perfectly by calling to the “released()” function with my buttons, but the problem occurs when i try to click on the item to make it zoom back out. “unReleased()” function will not work correctly when the item was zoomed in through my buttons. Can someone pls help! this seems like a simple problem to fix, and i’m just pulling my hair out trying to figure what’s wrong.