Broswer Back Button Question

Hello,
I have created an HTML web page with one Flash SWF file. This
file has 3 sequential scenes as follows:
1. Loading scene (displays while the rest of the file is
loading
2. Intro scene (displays a little animated introductory movie
to build the home page for fun)
3. HomePage scene (displays the fully loaded home page)
When the user navigates to a subsequent screen by choosing a
link from the home page and then hits the browser's "Back" button
(in this case Internet Explorer), I'd like for them to be taken to
the first frame of the 3rd scene so they do not have to watch the
introductory movie again (I do have a "Skip Movie" link, but I'd
prefer for them to not even have to choose this in this scenario).
However, when the IE browser's back button is selected, the
entire movie is played again. I assume it's jumping to the first
frame of Scene 1 (Loading) and then detecting that the file is
loaded and fast forwarding to the first frame of Scene 2 (Intro).
I thought maybe named anchors would help, so I named the
first frame of the 3rd scene "HomePage". When the movie initally
reaches this scene the URL in the browser changes to
"default.html#HomePage" as I expected. However, if a link is
selected from the home page and then the browser's back button is
selected, although the URLreturns to "default.html#HomePage", the
intro movie is displayed regardless.
There is one scenario that consistently works the way I want
to to. It is as follows:
1. Open the web site
2. Loading scene plays, Intro movie plays, and then HomePage
is displayed
3. Choose a link for from the home page
4. New page (I'll call it Page2) is displayed the same
browser window - Page2 has a completely different flash movie.
5. Choose a link from Page2
6. A third page (I'll call it Page3) displays in a NEW
browser window
7. Close Page3 window
8. On the Page2 window, choose the browser's back button
9. The window displays the 3rd scene (HomePage) of my initial
flash movie as I want it to.
This works consistently, but consistently doesn't work if I
don't navigate to Page3 as described. I have no idea why.
Sorry for the lengthy email, but I didn't want to leave out
any pertinent information.
Thanks so much
Steve

I think there are methods out there (or on the immediate
horizon) that allow you to use the browser's back button to
navigate within a single SWF, but I don't think that's the answer
for you.
Maybe using a Shared Object (basically a Flash cookie) to
indicate the user has already been through the intro would be a
better way to go. So the first time through you would write the SO,
then you'd check for its existence on your Intro Scene page. If its
there, skip to the Home Page scene.
Here's the Live Docs link for SOs:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00002661.html
Note: Be aware of the security restrictions on the Flash
player.
Good luck!

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