HELP ASAP - external swf's

HI, we have a situation which has done our heads in for two
days non-stop,
We have a pre-loader loading the area's and then have the
loadmovienum to load in additional swf's now when we use the nav
bar at the top of the page, it opens the right file but when it
loads the page it moves onto the next load movie for some reason
with out stopping, even though the stop command is in place....
We have uploaded the dodgy version which you can test and see
what problems we are having, the contact page is the same as the
service page for the moment, but you will see the contact page
display the "cloned" service page then it restarts the whole movie
Here are the URL's to the zip file with all the swf's and
fla's including the live what we have done so far online version.
http://www.drsolutions.co.uk/premiere/wwwroot/
http://www.drsolutions.co.uk/premiere/fla/premiere.zip
Please reply asap thanks
PS WE ARE USING FLASH 8

Just to clarify,
I am the author of the above flash project / files.. Travman
is my collegue.
Although this is not your style of flash shyaway, you did get
my noodle ticking over the interval script,
example:
var id = setInterval(function(){play();clearInterval(id);},
8000);
this was to make a movie clip pause for 8000 miliseconds,
then play the continued sequence to form a rotation of images, this
code was used on 4 frames in the sequence..
Following a closer look and removal of the code, the main
flash movie with loaded external swf's plays fine.. the reason, i
can only assume this code was causing an issue is due to the
play(); command, making the whole main movie play instead of just
the movie clip..
Scene names do not usually cause and issue, however, keeping
seperate names is always good from a logical sense
I have now resolved the issue, but for any other readers with
a similar problem, try searching for all play/stop commands that
run sub to the main timeline.
Andy - Web Designer/Developer /Programmer

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