noobieQ: buttons and control

I’ve been trying to make a webpage with flash. Everything has been smooth until i got to making a button. I wanted to make a menu that droped down and had a button on it that said close. I thought the best way to approach this is to stop playing the movie when the menu dropped down and when the user pressed close it continuue playing the movie. please tell me if there is a better way to do this

How i made the button:
using text I entered a text called close. I turned it into a component, type button. Then in the action spript i wrote:
play();

–didn’t work
I’ve been testing it out a little.
never got it to work.
Here is the file: http://www.employees.org/~dustin/Test.fla

ummm…on my site, that is sorta what i did…check it out…and if you like the effect…have fun with it…

I am not successful yet. I couldn’t get my button to work at all

you hafta put da actions in dem buttins for dem to work