[Flash 8] Need to pause script execution

Searched the forums (and the internet!) but no threads seem to really have a solution for this?

I’m making a ‘powerpoint’ style presentation in Flash, reading the content (slides) from an xml file in a loop -> filling dynamic text boxes in a single frame movie, but obviously AS is powering through the loop and not stopping for each slide.

I don’t know enough about AS to figure a way to achieve this…

Can anyone help?