AS3 Newbie: Looping movieclips & overlapping movies.

Hello all this is my first time posting in the forum and your help would be greatly appreciated!
The issue I am having is that the animation will play fine on my mac but when opened on a Windows OS it just loops and all the movieclips overlapp.
I am looking for a quick clean code solutiion I used code snippets to control the movie and do not have a knowledge of hand-coding AS.
Download animation here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1491983/frac_animation.swf
Note:
It is all set in one scene and one frame all of the movies are nested.
What I want the animation to do:
Button 1 activates a series of movieclips, stops when another button is selected and resumes at the begining again when clicked.
Button 2 Same action ability as button 1
Button 3 Same action ability as button 1
This is the snippet based code I am using now:
step1.arrows1b.stop();
step1.arrows1a.stop();
step1.arrows1c.stop();
step2.arrows1a2.stop();
step2.arrows1d.stop();
step2.focusWin.stop();
step2.waterjets.stop();
step3.focusWin2.stop();
step3.gasDot.stop();
step3.arrowsOut.stop();
step3.fractures.visible=false
button_1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToGoToAndPlayFromFrame_11);
function fl_ClickToGoToAndPlayFromFrame_11(event:MouseEvent):void
    gotoAndPlay(1);
    step1.arrows1b.play();
    step1.arrows1a.play();
    step1.arrows1c.play();
    step1.arrows1b.visible=true
    step1.arrows1a.visible=true
    step1.arrows1c.visible=true
    step2.arrows1a2.visible=false
    step2.arrows1d.visible=false
    step2.focusWin.visible=false
    step2.waterjets.visible=false
    step3.focusWin2.visible=false
    step3.gasDot.visible=false
    step3.arrowsOut.visible=false
    step3.fractures.visible=false
button_2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToGoToAndPlayFromFrame_12);
function fl_ClickToGoToAndPlayFromFrame_12(event:MouseEvent):void
    gotoAndPlay(1);
    step2.arrows1a2.play();
    step2.arrows1d.play();
    step2.focusWin.play();
    step2.waterjets.play();
    step2.arrows1a2.visible=true
    step2.arrows1d.visible=true
    step2.focusWin.visible=true
    step2.waterjets.visible=true
    step1.arrows1b.visible=false
    step1.arrows1a.visible=false
    step1.arrows1c.visible=false
    step3.focusWin2.visible=false
    step3.gasDot.visible=false
    step3.arrowsOut.visible=false
    step3.fractures.visible=false
/* Click to Go to Frame and Play
Clicking on the specified symbol instance moves the playhead to the specified frame in the timeline and continues playback from that frame.
Can be used on the main timeline or on movie clip timelines.
Instructions:
1. Replace the number 5 in the code below with the frame number you would like the playhead to move to when the symbol instance is clicked.
button_3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToGoToAndPlayFromFrame_13);
function fl_ClickToGoToAndPlayFromFrame_13(event:MouseEvent):void
    gotoAndPlay(1);
    step3.focusWin2.play();
    step3.gasDot.play();
    step3.arrowsOut.play();
    step2.arrows1a2.stop();
    step2.arrows1d.stop();
    step2.focusWin.stop();
    step2.waterjets.stop();
    step2.arrows1a2.visible=false
    step2.arrows1d.visible=false
    step2.focusWin.visible=false
    step2.waterjets.visible=false
    step1.arrows1b.visible=false
    step1.arrows1a.visible=false
    step1.arrows1c.visible=false
    step3.focusWin2.visible=true
    step3.gasDot.visible=true
    step3.arrowsOut.visible=true
    step3.fractures.visible=true

in your situation, you are going about it the correct way.
There is really nothing you can do, and you won't even see a
performance drop, so keep it up.
"I'm sorry but I'm not very good in speaking and writing
english."
I thought you did very well.

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sunny vaswani wrote:
> yeh kya code kyu paste kiya hai
>
> there is no solution for this question kindly close this thread.
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