Animated web flash menu

Hi,
i have made an animated web flash menu which consists of 1
preloader SWF
file, which displays a progress bar till my main movie is
being loaded.
while the main movie is loaded the animated web flash menu (+
images
+sounds) is played.
this is wonderful on my main PHP page, but now i would like
have this
animated web flash menu on each of my PHP page.
However, i do not want to play all animations, i just want to
display
the final result, to avoid end users to be bored with a
repeating animation.
so in fact, just to display the menu and animated pictures...
but
without sounds, and all others animation.
what is the best way ?
thanks a lot,
A.

so please, send it to rafnews (at) gmail (dot) com
The Feldkircher wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am currently doing a sample MenuBar for another
Postee, when I've finished I
> can send it to you as well.
>
> Send me a contact email address so I can forward it to
you when its ready.
>
> Ciao For Now
>

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so please, send it to rafnews (at) gmail (dot) com
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