New to flash, need help with buttons following an animation?

Hi this is probably a really stupid question but I’ve just started to use Flash and unsuprisingly I have become stuck. I’ve had a look through the tutorials but either I don’t know what I’m looking for or its just not there.

Anyway I have created a simple animation and after the animation I want the image to turn into a button - I seem to have done that but whenever I view the animation it just keeps looping and you get to see the button for a millisecond before starting the animation again. I saved it as an .swf to see if it just looped in the preview mode but it still loops? I’m sure there is a really simple soloution but as I say I’m totally new to this.

Also how to you get the buttons in flash to link to another animation - for example if you click the button it plays an .swf file? (…and stops at the end without looping!)

Thank you for any helo you can give,

Matt