Can' get movie clip to play

I have a Flash movie that plays a movie clip called DR1 at
frame 113 using this code:
DR1.play();
There is nothing else going on in the movie for the length of
the clip, but when I play the movie, the clip does not play - I
just have a blank screen for those frames.
Also, if I try dragging an instance of the movie onto the
timeline at that point, the same thing happens - blank screen for
the amount of frames that the clip is present.
If I play the clip in the library it plays correctly.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Beth

OK - I realize now that I have to actually publish the movie
to have the clip play, whether by dragging an instance onto the
timeline or loading it via AS.
Now I have another issue. I'm sorry if these are stupid
questions, but I have a hard time finding things in the help file -
maybe I'm too much of a new Flash user to understand what to look
for!
Anyway, when I play the movie, I have three problems:
1) the clip starts playing immediately, even though I don't
issue the play() command until the middle of the movie. I do the
attachMovie in the first frame so that it has loaded by the time I
want to play it, but it starts playing right away even though I
don't tell it to play.
2) the clip seems to be centered on the upper left corner of
the screen when it plays. I have tried setting the _x and _y
properties of the instance to 0,0 but that doesn't seem to make a
difference. I want the clip to be centered on the screen (it is
sized to take up the whole stage) but can't seem to move it no
matter what values I plug into the _x and _y properties.
3) the clip loops continuously. I only want it to play once
but can't seem to find a property to control the looping.
Here is the code in the first frame:
var mc1:MovieClip;
mc1 = this.createEmptyMovieClip("DR1",
this.getNextHighestDepth());
this.attachMovie("DR1", "mc1", this.getNextHighestDepth());
mc1._x = 500;
mc1._y = 500;
mc1.stop(); (this was added to get it to not play until
later, to no avail)
And the code at frame 113:
mc1.play();
And finally at frame 412:
mc1.stop();
Help, please!
Thanks,
Beth

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