Movie clips return to original state

please visit my website. www.tm82art.com and click on the “the artist” section. just run your mouse over the dark squares a few times and their alpha will change. the problem is that when i click on another link i.e. “Home”…i have an outro that plays. it is a mask that covers all the buttons and creates a wipeout effect. but you’ll notice right after you click the link the buttons return to their original opacity. is there a way to have their current opacity stay so that they don’t return to original when the wipeout occurs? the code is fairly simple. each rollover button(movie clip) has the following code.

**[FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] //stop();
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] if(rewind == true)
{ [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] prevFrame(); [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] } [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]
}

this.onRollOver = function() { [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]
rewind = false;
play(); [/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] }

this.onRollOut = function()
{ [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] stop(); [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] }

[/SIZE][/FONT] **and on the last frame of the button(movie clip) animation is this.

**this.enabled = false;

**which of course makes the button inactive. could this be affecting why it restarts at the beginning of the outro? i’m stumped.

any AS gurus around? :}