no, im kind of finding it hard to explain (mainly becuase I’ve only just started in flash and I don’t really know whats going on!)
Would you mind if I emailed you the flash file (the problem is obvious when you see whats going on!) - its only like 24k! - my web space is down at the moment 
I think that i might have made a fundamental error in the way I have constructed the movie - i wouldn’t expect you to sort that out, but maybe explain what i have done wrong…
Thanks for your time!