Navigate to point on Edge Timeline from a menu outside of edge

Is it possible to navigate to a point on the timeline from a menu that is outside of the edge animation?
I have a file set up that has about six screens on it. Each screen represents a different navigation tab. The actual file has left and right buttons that create a scroll effect either right to left, or in reverse. This works fine. Each transition is marked with a label, such as "Slide01", "Slide02" etc and I am using | sym.Play("Slide01") | to good effect.
What I need to do though is create a menu on a web page that takes a user straight to the correct point on the animation. For example, the second navigation option would take them to the second screen of the edge file.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

We ended up using the following code
$('#test').click(function(){
var Comp = AdobeEdge.getComposition('EDGE-XXXXXXXX');
Comp.getStage().getSymbol("SYMBOLNAME").stop("FRAMELABEL");
You can replace .stop() with .play() depending on what you want the movie to do.
We're currently working on parsing a URL to the movie so that you can navigate to a specific part of the animatio when you land on it from another page. This may prove interesting for pre-loaders though.

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>Well, it was ignoring the chapter end-actions
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Hey Piero
Comestah?
I'm an Italiano too My Granparents are from Bari
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