Converting AS3 - > AS2

Hi,

This is in relation to my post “frame labels navigation”.

THE STORY SO FAR :
I had created a product demo in Flash CS4 spanning around 3000 frames, with frame labels for different steps. After googling around and digging in AS3, I could get my forward navigation buttons to function properly.

But I am getting stuck with the Previous button scripts, it just doesn’t execute, and even if it does execute, it just goes one framelabel before the current one.

At this juncture, the forward button goes crazy, suppose I am in step 5 and I press the Previous button, the animation goes to Step 4, but hereafter the forward button takes me to step 6 instead of 5, and thereafter successive clicks on the forward button is all madness. I am not writing any other code but the standard event listeners, and goto statements.

THE CASE NOW:

I have decided now to change the code to AS2, but now my problem is :

  1. Do I have to recreate the entire file (as in start from scratch ?) or just change the code everywhere to reflect AS2 ?

I feel coding in AS2 is much easier, (using the standard on release handlers) rather than writing listeners etc…