AS2 Navigation assistnace/advice

Hi
My AS2 is not too good and Im wanting to move onto AS3
learning after my current project.
Ive been working on a tutorial and managed to get a
navigation system where buttons react to each other, ie. change
state and then move to the appropriate place in the movie.
It all seems to be working as coded but Im not sure how to
tell the movie that it is on the homepage, and make the button1
show in its selected state. I.e when movie loaded it is on the
homepage.
Could anyone show me the code to achivev this please.
Ive attached the zip with fla in for download below
Thanks for any help, or point me to another tutorial that
covers this
Voddie
ZIP

I didnt expect you to do this for free.
I have purchased many many components for flash, I dont
suppose I would be able to use these in AS3?
If that's the case, I havent any projects that I could do in
AS3 at the moment. I thought that if I was going to learn AS, I
might as well learn AS3. So a template would get me started with
understanding what youve created.
Voddie

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