Interactive PDFs and swf animation

hello,
I have created some animation to work in an interactive PDF which is in SWF format so it will work.
The problem I have is that I want to animation to play each time the page is visited within the document in acrobat, not just the first time the user goes that page and then it be fixed in the complete animation view.
I thought I might be able to make a button that would be a 'click to play' button, but the buttons don't have the option to play SWFs, only to play animation which I can't use as it has to be SWF animation to work in an Interactive PDF.
So is there another way to make the animation play more than once?
many thanks,
Chrissy

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