Help with actionscript

Hey guyz. I imported a swf created in After Effects to Flash
CS3 to make it interactive. Flash broke the "swf" movie into a
number of keyframes (apprx 65 keyframes) which when previewed,
plays all the keyframes one by one. I want it to stop at first
keyframe and have a button over there, which when clicked will let
the next 30 keyframes run without stopping. Then stop at the 30th
keyframe which will have another button to be clicked to proceed to
the the next 34 keyframes without stop.
I have been trying the stop(), and gotoAndPlay nextFrame, but
it stops at the next frame. Kindly help.
One more thing, do I need to convert all the imported
keyframes to graphic or movieclip ?

Hey..thanks for ur reply. I created a new layer with 2
keyframes, but it still didn't work. I still have to click in each
frame of the movie to go to the next. Maybe it has to do something
with the action script. This is what I put in the first keyframe of
the "actions" layer.

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Look, I hope you don't have false expectation that by knowing one piece of AS capabilities you will be able to accomplish your task.
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