Getting my movie clip to loop

Hi,
I have created an bar of thumbnails and added as3 code so that the imagebar scrolls to the right or left depending where the mouse pointer is located. However once you reach the end or beginning of the clip it just stops. How can I make it loop to beginning or end (depending on which way you're scrolling?? I'm very new to Flash and as3 as a warning.
Here is my code so far. (I'm just pasting it in, is there a special way to do this?)
Thanks,
Giuseppe
MovieClip(root).addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, enterFrameHandler);
function enterFrameHandler(event:Event):void
if (MovieClip(root).mouseX > 600 && mouseX < 800 && mouseY > 450)
imgBar.nextFrame();
if (MovieClip(root).mouseX > 800 && mouseY > 450)
imgBar.nextFrame();
imgBar.nextFrame();
if (MovieClip(root).mouseX < 300 && mouseX >100 && mouseY > 450)
imgBar.prevFrame();
if (MovieClip(root).mouseX < 100 && mouseY > 450)
imgBar.prevFrame();
imgBar.prevFrame();

make a container with 2 imgBar movieclip.
So it will be double width of the original.
Let the container scroll left or right.
I did for you a very simple sample:
http://www.flashdersi.com/flash/diger/adobeforum/scroll.fla

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