FLVplayback: skip intro?

So
I'm making a flash project and I have 10 different videos on it (embedded using FlVPlayback) and all the videos have the same stupid intro. My boss would like me to add a "skip intro" button which would allow you to jump to about 19 seconds in the video.
what I have done so far is insterted a video file without the introduction in a new keyframe and have the "skip intro" button linked to keyframe.
the only problem is that if you do not wish to press the skip intro button, it stays up on the screen the entire time, and we would like it to disappear. I've thought about using skipintro.alpha = 0 at a cuePoint located 19 seconds in, but i'm not really sure how that would work.
any ideas? am I on the right track? any shortcuts to what I'm doing?
thanks!

anyone?

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> I don't know if this belongs in flash or dreamweaver, so
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> places. I have a quicktime movie (originally a motion
movie) that I converted
> into flash video in hopes of using it as an intro to a
webpage created with
> dreamweaver. It works fine, but I cannot figure out how
to make it go away
> after the movie is done and leave behind the contents of
the page. My original
> thought was to put it in a layer and make the layer with
the flash movie
> invisible once the movie was done playing, but that
didn't work. I then tried
> adding the behavior go to URL and using the URL of the
page without the flash
> movie, but that didn't work, either. Is there any way
top use a flash movie in
> dreamweaver and then make it go away? Is there a simpler
way to accomplish
> using a flash movie as an intro? Thank you so much for
your help.
>

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It's like pulling teeth. It's agonizing. I've come up with a peace accord for the middle east while trying to figure out AS error codes. I decode the human genome to get relief from AS. I can't wait till we can all laugh about it in 20 years. "Son, when I was a boy I had to program in Action Script and it was so *** backwards it took me a week to figure out a bloody FLV preloader".
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PS I checked your link. It seems you figured it out? Can you post your code before I enroll in 5 years of computer science?

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