Making the timeline stay put in one MC while going to another one

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Is there a way in Flash 8, while in one movie clip, to make the timeline stay where you put it when you go back to the parent movie clip? The default behavior in Flash is for the timeline in that movie clip to snap back to the first frame. I have quite a few instances here where I need to size things up beside each other, but they are in different movie clips and not on the first frames. The onion skins feature does not help.