Can I make a function wait for a period of time?

Hey everyone
I just wanted some idea's on how best to tackle this problem
in actionscript.
All I want is that when a button is pressed it fades out the
current page and then fades in the new page to be displayed. How
ever when trying to fade out the current page i doesn't because it
goes to the label and starts to play but the next part of the
script tells it to go straight to the label to load the new page.
Does anyone have a clever way of making it wait till the current
page is faded out?
If worse comes to worse can I just make it wait a set period
of time before fading in the new page?
Ive attached a bit of the current code and comment it with
where the current page is faded out.
Thanks in advance for any help
Gaunt

What I'm struggling to get my head round though is how to I
get it to know when the fade out code is finished?
Because the way I have programmed it at the moment,
everything is done from one action script that registers the last
viewed page and then when the new page is clicked it will just call
gotoAndPlay to the point where my pages_mc will play fading out the
current page, then after that it will call gotoAndPlay on the
pages_mc to play the fade in of the new page.
I just dont see how I call the second gotoAndPlay function
once I know the first gotoAndPlay function has ended.
Does that make any sense or am I just being stupid??
Thanks for the help again though kglad

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