Loading and unloading consecutive external .swf's

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I’ve read through the forums as much as I can and I think I’m at wits end on trying to understand this (a lot of other things going on right now - hard to concentrate). I have an fla that I’m creating called “ordinal.” I’ve got a main_mc on the front, and in that mc, I have three small, external .swf’s I want to load, one leading right into the next one. I’ve read a lot of forums and links (especially senocular’s) on the loading and unloading of .jpg’s - and I guess I’m not getting the correlation. I would like it where:

movie1 automatically plays (I have it in frame 1-layer 2, with a stop command in frame 1 at the base layer)
movie 2 begins playing when movie 1 ends (the movie is in frame 2-layer3, I have a stop at the base layer)
and movie 3 begins when movie 1 ends.(the movie’s in frame 3 - layer4, stop command at base layer)

So, I created a movie clip object named movieone, placed it into frame one (layer 2) and added the following code to the frame:

//load Movie Behavior
	if(this.movieone == Number(this.movieone)){
		loadMovieNum("ordinal.swf",this.movieone);
	} else {
		this.movieone.loadMovie("ordinal.swf");
	}
	//End Behavior

then created another movieclip, named movietwo, placed it into frame 2 (layer3) and added the code:

//load Movie Behavior
	if(this.movietwo == Number(this.movietwo)){
		loadMovieNum("ordinal2.swf",this.movietwo);
	} else {
		this.movietwo.loadMovie("ordinal2.swf");
	}
	//End Behavior

and the same for the third. Obviously I am not talented with the actionscripting (and scripting/programming is my biggest weakness), but I need to be able to have something that tells the movie to gotoAndPlay (nextFrame); at the end of each movie - that next frame being on the main timeline with only 3 frames for 3 external .swf’s (unless I can reference it within the external swf). I have tried to load them into an empty movie clip, but I am getting very lost with understanding what levels to load movies into, unloading a movie, and so on. I haven’t seen just a basic how to on - load movie, unload movie, then load movie, unload movie… that wasn’t specifically referring to .jpg’s, and again - for whatever reason (beyond being tired), I can’t seem to correlate back to .swf’s when a jpg is a single picture versus a movie clip. Any suggestions / information would be greatly appreciated. I do own the FlashMX Bible, but for a non-programmer-oriented mind (a simpleton like me :slight_smile: - it didn’t explain much. Thanks in advance.