Adding a GIF to a GIF

Hi, I have recently edited a picture to have animated snow
coming down on it so it is an animated GIF picture. But, I also
have a separate GIF picture of a little character i want to add
into this background of another GIF. So I want to know how do i add
a GIF onto antoher GIF? I can't seem to figure it out.

If I understand the query correctly the following should help
you.
Open the Animated GIF file. If you are on CS3 or prior
version you should be able to see the different animations stages
in "Frames" panel otherwise goto "States" panel.
Now goto Layers panel. Now Import the new gif file in a new
layer and share this layer across all States/Frames. Save the file
as an Animated GIF.

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Ben wrote:
Well before Mike got carried away in this thread the answer to those questions was "NO".
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