setInterval to cancel using a button action?

programming flash
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Hi All,

I’m making a Flash email that will have a: presentation and buttons on the bottom to either: go back, pause, or move forward.

To kill the mounds of tweening, I am using on the main timeline this code to pause the movie for a set # of seconds, so that a reader can read the text:

stop();
var delaymov:Number = setInterval(this, "pause", 300);
function pause():Void {
clearInterval(delaymov);
play();
}

However, I also want to be able to allow the user to PAUSE (via Movieclip Button) the movie on his/her whim, and just as anticipated, this causes friction with the points of the movie that have the aforementioned script.

Here is what I have for a button function so far.:
[COLOR=DarkOrange][COLOR=Black]Main Timeline has a
Movieclip Button that has
3 Frames: (1)PauseFrame (2)PlayFrame (3)gotoandplay.
Inside Frames 1 and 2 are buttons for their respective functions.[/COLOR]

[/COLOR]…Code for the Pause Frame’s button:

on (release) {
    nextFrame(); //advance to next this.frame
    _root.stop(); //pause movie
     clearInterval(delaymov); //disable delay
}

I have tried even _root.clearinterval, and tried to put it in a function
_root.stop()
function() {
clearInterval(delaymov);
}
nextFrame();

but can’t get it to work either way. But it DOES pause the movie when there isn’t a setInterval in the pipes.

Help?

Thanks in Advance!