Mc's and timeline- help!

Hi,
I’m a newbie to flash and I have a few questions. I’ve made a flash movie called “alltel” that begins with an animation which runs through in the beginning then stops and then there’s a menu with buttons that can go to separate movie clips on the timeline and buttons that go to separate flash movies. questions:

  1. When I try going back to the alltel movie from another linked movie, how can I tell it to skip past the beginning animation (first 50 frames or so) and go straight to the menu?

  2. I have 4 movie clips that are info boxes that can be closed and minimized. They are all on different frames and are different instances of the same movie clip. Problem is, when I try to change the information and text in one, it changes all the rest to look the same. I want to make them different- how do I do this? I’ve tried duplicating the movie clips and renaming them- it doesn’t seem to work.
    I hope this all makes sense-Please try to be simple in explaining how to do this! Much thanks!

Do a search in the forums for movie clips and and I am sure you will find a thread that will answer your question…
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umm try doing a search for tell targetting since i dont know if flash 5 is capable of doing dot notation

flash 5 is capable of dot notation.

*Originally posted by [Legoman] *
**flash 5 is capable of dot notation. **

Really?? D@mn never knew that things could have been so much simpler, oh well :-\