Movie Clip Actionscript....

For my online gallery, I'm using movie clips as buttons to navigate. I was having the movie clip play when you scrolled over it and off of it. Now i have it so when you click on it, it stops at the mid-way point. What I need help on is to get it to go back to its original state when I click on something else. So basically I'm looking for a way to go back to frame 1 when a different movie clip/button is clicked on. I want it to revert back to what it was in an inactive state when I click on a different part, but I don't know how to do that.
Is this making sense? can anyone help me??!?
Thank you in advance for any advice you may have!

Think in terms of creating a function that resets all buttons to their first frame. You can also create it such that it ignores resetting the button that calls the function.

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this part of the code works it goes to the 2nd frame of the timeline it is in and stops wich is a blown up version of the origanal symbol
i added on frame 2 a second command
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I have a similar problem if could please help me i'd really apreciate it!!
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Hello. Thanks for taking time out for this question.
Basically, I started an exercise in a book and it asked me to
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a movie clip and tried to press F9 for actionscript, but Flash told
me "Current selection cannot have actions added to it".
When I looked at the example file that came with the book, I
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However, the techniques of adding code directly to movie
clips is an old and outdated way of coding. And I would advise that
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down that road.
AS 2 is perfectly useful and good so learn that or learn AS3
(or both!), but here is a link to an article about the issue:
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/museum-pieces-on-and-onclipevent
David Stiller (that is his blog) posts here often and is a
great source of information. You might want to check out more of
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