ahh ****it, i’m sorry again. new problem i didn’t recognize before. so i have the two movie clips at frame 15 when the movie starts (there is a little intro animation of them moving up when it loads the clips, hence why it stops 15 frames down the line waiting for them to be pressed). if i press one of them while none of them are past frame 15, it reverses the frames to frame 1 for the one that wasn’t pressed so it collapses all together under the movie where it is not visible anymore.