Adding animated gif to a still image, how do I do this?

I used to know how to do it, but I've forgotten.
Example:  The person who told me how to do it had taken an animated gif (butterfly) and placed it on her breast in a still photo of herself.  I know that she used Image Ready and as I recall, she created the same number of frames of the still image as the animated butterfly and then she somehow merged the two together.  Can someone help, is there a tutorial somewhere?  I'm using 7.0 by the way.
Thanks,
Ray
P.S.  I also remember that it had something to do with linking the layers so that you just needed to place the first frame in the sequence and link all the other layers to it, but I'm totally lost now!

I don't believe that PS 7.0 supports animation, 'least I don't know how to use this function if it does.  That is why I remember using Image Ready to do it.  In Image Ready you can use any animated gif file to do what I want, I just can't remember how I did it.  I do remember that I had to take my background image and duplicate it to get the same number of frames as the animated gif file, but I don't remember how I merged the two together.  It had something to do with placing the first frame of the animated gif where I wanted it on my background and then using the link tool in the layer box to link them together, that way I didn't have to place each individual frame of the animation on to the background and avoid an alignment nightmare.  I sure wish I would've taken notes!
Thank you for your suggestions.
Ray

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