Help with starting animation over movie

Help! I’ve used every tutorial book I can find and still can’t solve this problem.
I have my movie and which teaches my students about fractions but it needed a little animation overlay in it so I added the animation in layers and it works but…
unless the movie starts immediately when you go to the page the animation won’t sync up. The animation seems to start as soon as the page opens. I tried a stop() code which then didn’t even let the animation start and then tried a goandplay and again now it starts but really doesn’t change anything. I need the right coding to do this. If I’m not totally clear about the problem you can check out the movie to see the problem. I don’t know if its easier to post the site or the file let me know. Help!
Lindsey
lwhyte1980@hotmail.com
It’s posted at:
http://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/woodlines/fractions/whatisafraction.html