Help with buttons accessing loaded layers

Hi all...Using Flash CS3 and AS3 to build a learning module that will load different layers of SWF files based on buttons on the main screen. Got this working with no problems. What I want to do is add buttons to provide learners some functionality, specifically a forward button, back button and a check box that will keep advancing automatically. I've done massive searches and so far nothing seems to work. Seems like what I am acccessing so far is the main layer, not the new layers as they are loaded. Below is what I have been trying with the back button; the foward button uses nextFrame and is Handler2. It isn't working. Not even sure how to start with the checkbox for auto advance. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Mark
back_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDownHandler1);
function mouseDownHandler1(event:MouseEvent):void
MovieClip(root).prevFrame();

Thank you for your reply. This is what I have so far - the module has four differentSWFs that load depending on what the user selects. The modules are titled Introduction, Standards, Elements, and Traits. When clicked, the button loads that specfic SWF and the previous one is unloaded. Hope I am using the correct terminology - I'm more familiar with AS2 than 3!

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Help with remote access to blog/wiki/webcalendar

Greetings, righteous Mac community.
I write to you as a brand-newbie in the Leopard server world, and I have found many posts here invaluable in helping me get setup and running. I have been unable to figure out getting the blog/wiki/webcalendar working completely, though, and any aid would be most welcome. Please keep in mind that 1 week ago I knew exactly nothing about running/configuring a server, so the simplest/dumbest/plainest answers would probably work best.
First, my setup. We are a small (4-client + server) network. Server is successfully configured with: shares all network clients can access; iChat & iCal servers; and Retrospect backing up everything.
We have an Airport Extreme routing our dynamic-IP DSL connection from Verizon. Static IPs on the LAN for all the clients along with port-mapping on the AEBS & DynDns service has enabled successful afp and vnc connections to the clients & server from outside the network as well as internal and external use of the iCal server through iCal. Also added a CNAME record at my domain host (MediaTemple) to point server.mydomain.com to the DynDns URL - so to do those afp and vnc connections I can type, for example, afp://server.mydomain.com:port in the Finder's Connect to Server window.
The sole remaining service I'd like to setup for now would be the wiki/blog/webcalendar. This seems to work fine now on the LAN when you type server.mydomain.com into Safari.
But no dice from outside the network. Verizon blocks port 80, so I've got to type server.mydomain.com:8080 into Safari, and I've mapped the 8080 port on the router to point at the webserver. So far so good - the browser displays the default home page, and shows a link in the right sidebar to the single group blog/wiki/calendar. But when I click on this, I am directed to server.mydomain.com:8080/groups/mygroup, but instead of the blog, I get a page with an error: Not Found, 404: No group with that name (mygroup) hosted on this server.
Any ideas about how to fix this? I've tried running the webserver on port 8080 and pointing the router to that to no avail. The fellow who's been helping me set this up wonders if the problem is that the URL still has that pesky :8080 in it, gumming up the works somehow. If so, is there a way to do some sort of Apache URL rewrite or DNS alias or something to fix it? By the way, that previous sentence demonstrates the entirety of my Apache/DNS knowledge (I know some terms, but not how to do anything), so please be super simple with any explanations!
Or is there something else I can try?
As a secondary concern, I'd like to make it possible to type server.mydomain.com from outside the network rather than server.mydomain.com:8080. I think you can do this too through DynDns, but I have not been able to figure that out. Priority, though, is on getting the wiki running well first...
Thanks so much in advance, wise friends. I'm excited to hear what you think.
Sincerely,
Willhaus

Hi MrHoffman,
Thanks again for the reply.
I hear you about Verizon. I checked in with them and they are indeed blocking port 80 and gave no indication that that would change without a considerably bigger package - not realistic or reasonable for our small studio. But the DynDns strategy seems to work well - I can successfully access the network remotely in many ways: vnc, afp, web, etc...
I got you about web clients needing to add the port to the URL. That's how I've been remotely browsing to the server to get the error I'm encountering.
VPN: Originally I wanted to set this up, but read some things about VPN not working through an AEBS. Maybe I'll return to it, but for now I want to focus on a non-VPN strategy. Partly b/c of the hassle (one thing at a time...) and partly b/c we'll probably be accessing this stuff from a variety of computers and wouldn't want VPN hassles to get in the way of simple web access.
As for the redirect, I tried your suggestions. What seems to happen, though, is that the browser just gets redirected to a new URL without the port reference, thereby resending the user to the Verizon-blocked port 80. That's why I was messing around with the proxy method before - I thought it might reroute the traffic to the correct port on the server machine without running into trouble with Verizon. I believe I was getting the Gateway error both in the browser and the logs (can't find it in the logs now, though). Anything else I could try with the RewriteRule method? It seems like once a user gets past Verizon and has access to the server, it ought to be possible to redirect that traffic to the correct Apache port to get the wiki to work. But I can't for the life of me figure it out.
I have new suspicion too: that this might have to do with the DNS setup on the server. I wonder because: when I go on the server machine itself and try to browse to server.mydomain.com or even www.mydomain.com (which should take you outside the LAN to the internet to deliver our website running on our host), I get a "Safari can't find the server server.mydomain.com" error. But if I input one of 2 IPs (10.0.1.201 and 127.0.0.1) I'll get taken to the proper server homepage. But it breaks on the group page just like remote access does.
So it seems to me that there must be something wrong with the DNS settings if browsing from the server itself doesn't find our externally hosted domain nor point itself to the wiki site that it hosts that works fine for clients on LAN. Maybe patching that up will fix my problem? Does it make sense that a DNS error might break the wiki but not break the personal blogs? Could anyone walk me through a simple DNS setup for the small network situation I mentioned in my original post? Please keep in mind that I know nothing about Primary/secondary zones, reverse lookup, reverse mapping, etc. Is there a simple way to describe everything I should see in the DNS section of Server Admin?
Thanks a million,
W

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