Stop Animation

G.E,
I am having the hardest time understanding layers and the Timeline. While I understand the goodness of code (HTML / CSS) I am just catching onto A.S In the meantime, being new to Flash here is my dilemma:
I have 2 layers - the 1st layer being "Img" for the image on the stage
I add a 2nd layer to the stage for "text".  Here I add my motion tween (starting on frame 2) with the text selected. I Start from the left of the stage (off of the stage) and move to the right under the image.
I am also adding a 3rd layer for the Action and adding Stop(); in the Actions Panel to the last frame of Layer 2
Result:
The image flickers and the text continues to loop.
I know this question is out there with answers, I am just not having any luck - so please forgive me. Any assistance is greatly appreicated for a newbie Flasher

If you already have the stills shot, then you could just use QuickTime Player (Pro, registered) to assemble them automatically (with a given framerate). The frames must be sequentially numbered by filename (or it will guess at the order by normal sorting methods.)

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