Controlling one swf with another

Ok here's what I'm trying to do. I have speant quite sometime on it but can't seem to find a good resource for the solution.
I have a site I am working on which has a Flash intro. The other pages of the site hold a menu that's created in Flash. For some reason my client wants the ability to go back and view the intro again, which is easily accomplished with navigateToURL. HOWEVER the intro is broken into two distinct parts and I need to target the second part, which would require something along the lines of gotoAndPlay(500); or something to that effect.
What I am having problems with is how do I target a specific frame in a completely different movie, the intro, using a button from the Flash menu within the site. I'll try to explain it a bit easier. The top button on staticMenu.swf, which is placed throughout the site (aboutus.aspx, portfolio.aspx, etc...) needs to target frame 500 of mainIntro.swf which is embedded in default.aspx.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. It make keep me from beating my head off the wall in the future... =)

you can pass the frame to play in a query string, use javascript to parse the javascript and use the externalinterface class to evaluate the query string in flash. if it's there, goto frame 500 (assuming frame 500 is loaded - ie, you'll need a preloader), otherwise don't got frame 500.

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