Making a flash movie delay before starting for the first time

Question

Flash noob here. I've currently got a little bit of
actionscript in my flash movie which makes it loop a couple times,
and then pause, before looping over again, and then pausing again,
and wash-rinse-repeat, which is fine.
But now what I also need is to add a small bit of code
(preferably on the first frame) which allows me to set a delay
time, that the movie will just appear to be paused, but it should
ONLY do this the first time. Every other time, the movie should
loop like it does normally.
The reason is because I've got about 3 movies on my page,
when one stops moving, I want a 2nd one to start, then when that
one stops, the 3nd will start, and when the third one stops, the
1irst one will start again, etc. so I have to time it just
right.

Answer 1

If it might help, here's the code I have so far. The movie
has 17 frames. But that shouldn't matter, I was going to just go by
the loop count, and try to even them up that way.
frame 1
function pause(){
play();
clearInterval(timer);
loopCount=0;
frame 16
if (!loopCount) {
var loopCount:Number = 0;
loopCount++;
if (loopCount < 5) {
this.gotoAndPlay(1);
} else {
this.gotoAndPlay(17);
frame 17
stop(); // 60000 = 1 minute
timer = setInterval(pause, 10000);