Movie Clip Button - Action Script issues

This is a two part question:
1. I have my movie clip button, "mcAboutus" then inside my
movie clip I have 5 layers: actions, labels, text, animated
rollover("mcAboutusover"), animated rolloff("mcAboutusoff"). On the
labels layer I have _up, _over, _off. On the _up is the text layer,
on the _over is a movie clip of the animated
rollover("mcAboutusover") which is 90 frames, and I want to loop as
long as the mouse is over the text. And the _off has the
"mcAboutusoff" movie clip.
So I was able to have the rollover work, but when I roll off
the rollover animation continues on until the end of the animation.
I understand it has to do with the fact that it's a movie clip, but
how do I point it to go into the movie clip and read the animation
and that on the last frame of the animation I have a
"gotoAndPlay(1);" to have the animation continue looping as long as
it's in a rollover state?
here is the code I have for the _root:
this.mcAboutus.onRollOver = function() {
mcAboutus.gotoAndPlay(_over);
this.mcAboutus.onRollOut = function() {
mcAboutus.gotoAndPlay(_off);
The other problem I am having is that once the I have rolled
over the animation once, the button dies and won't let me rollover
it again?
Aside from the "stop();" action in the mcAboutus movie clip
symbol, I don't have any other actions, should I put items in the
different movie clips I have set up?
ALSO.... The reason that I have the main movie clip button,
and two movie clips residing in the mcBtn is I wanted light rays to
be glowing from the text, and I was having a hard time getting what
I wanted from Flash, so I created in After Effects and exported two
.SWF files. So those .SWF files are the _over and _off states in
the mcBtn. I am having a very hard time controlling those Movie
Clips within the main MC Button. Please, any help would be greatly
appreciated.

quote:
Originally posted by:
kglad
mcAboutusover should be a movieclip that has your over
animation and it should have a stop() on its last frame. it should
be placed on your _over frame in mcAbousus' timeline. you should
then use:
Ok, so I have my main timeline, in it has my
mcAboutus>> then inside that I have three labels. _up which
has the static text then on frame 5 I have the _over which has the
keyframe for the mcAboutusover, this animation is 90 frames, then I
have on frame 10, the _off for the RollOut state, and I have a 10
frame animation on that one. I still can't get it to continue on
after the initial rollover, the button still dies down.
I am going to redo everything in a presentation timeline,
based on Total Training and see if that helps my problem out any,
and will get back to you tomorrow with more info. Thanks

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