Exporting SWF Files

I am working on our univeristy Alumni Magazine. The past few issues I have been generating a swf file to go on our website for viewers to have a more interactive experience with the magazine. When I export the swf files it gives me a white facing page beside my front and back covers. In the past I have been making my front and back cover page size the same size as my spreads, and it hasn't put a white facing page beside the front and back cover. However, this isn't the original size of the magazine cover and looks kind of awkward. Is there any way I can leave my cover it's original size and get rid of the white facing page? I am working with Adobe CS6. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Sorry, I'm not explaining it clearly.
There is a single FLA file in which there are 150+ frames.
Each frame contains it's own content. That's part's no problem.
The final files are viewed through a projector file; again no
issue there.
The issue I've got is that the person who originally created
the fla file has made an swf of each frame and I can't figure out
how to do that.

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