Cs3 flash movie

i have a flash movie and the loader works and it plays as it should but I am not a actionscript guru what happens is if i go from index to another page then back to index it reloads i heard there was a way to stop it from playing when you vist one page and come back to it but dont know where or how to start

ok i put this on my frame
var today_date:Date = new Date();
var dateString:String = (today_date.getDate()+"/"+(today_date.getMonth()+1)+"/"+today_date.getFullYear( ));
this.sharedObj = SharedObject.getLocal(dateString);
if ((this.sharedObj.data.userData == undefined) || (this.sharedObj.data.userData != dateString)) {
    this.sharedObj.data.userData = dateString;
    this.sharedObj.flush();
    trace("first time");
    gotoAndPlay(2);
} else {
    gotoAndStop(283);
    trace("not new");
it allows the site to load but after that it doesnt play the movie just goes to the last frame if i close the browser delete cookies then go to browser type it in it goes straight to the last frame i am not sure if i am doing something wrong i am new to action script if they close there browser then open it back up i want the animation to play i dont want it to play more than once in a single visit

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> I've used the Dreamweaver CS3 wizard to embed a Flash
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> and
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http:// references to https:// in the scripts
> (like I saw on an old post) I only get a white box
instead of the movie.
> Please see the attached bit of code.
> The old post I read was referring to an old version of
Flash but I doubt
> that
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> Thanks.
>
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> When I try to add a Flash movie to a page in DW CS3, I
get the following
> message:
>
> When executing onClick Options.htm, the following
Javascritp Error(s)
> occurred:
>
> At line 55 of the file "I:\Program FIles\Adobe\Adobe
Dreamweaver
> CS3\Configuration|Commands|Object|Object Options.js":
> Cannot fine the file I:\Program FIles\Adobe\Adobe|adobe
Dreamweaver
> CS3\Configuration\Shared\Common\Cache\Empty.htm.
>
> At line 55 of the file "I:\Program FIles\Adobe\Adobe
Dreamweaver
> CS3\Configuration\Commands\Object Options.js":
getDocumentDOM: Argument
> number
> 1 is invalid.
>
> If I click through the error messages, I finally get the
movie on the page
> and
> it seems to display okay in IE6 ahd FX.
>
> I don't get the error when I load a Flash movie if I use
DW 8.
>
> Do I need to reload DWCS3? Or is there a fix that I can
download. It
> seems
> to be a problem with DWCS3.
>
>
> Regards,
> Bill Schaepe
>
>

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