Hi, I’ve seen in this tutorial: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/cartoon.htm and downloaded the .fla file and I’ve seen that it’s all flattened into one layer and the frames of that layer are also all flattened. How can I do that in Flash 8? I made another animation and want to flatten it as well. Thanks! 
Nothing’s been flattened…they’re simply nested movieclips. Double-click on the M Dexter movieclip that you can see on the stage. This will open up to show all the layers containing more movieclips. Double-click on M Head then on M Blink, and that too will reveal more layers.
Because movieclips will loop unless told not to by a stop(); action, you can place nested movieclips (with their own independent timeline) into a single frame.
So all you have to do is copy your animation, with all its frames and symbols, into a new movieclip and put that onto the stage.
