Navigating Out Of Movie Clips

Hi, i have a presentation set up whereby I have 2 scenes,
Intro Movie and Introduction. I have a Movie Clip in Introduction
with a number of navigation buttons in it for within this
movieclip, but i need one button to replay the Intro Movie in the
other scene. Can someone help me out with some actionscript for
this? Any help would be greatly appreciated

it goes like this - the main timeline is the _root of the
movie. Anything on that timeline has a . after it. So if you have a
movieclip called "clip1" and inside of that another movieclip
called "subclip" then the full path to that movie is:
_root.clip1.subclip
From the subclip movie if you want to control the main
timeline you just write something like this:
button1.onRelease = function(){
_root.gotoAndPlay(1);
No matter where that button is located (inside a clip inside
a clip inside....) it will still control the main timeline.
Hope that makes sense.

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> made out of Movie Clips (.swfs). This was done by
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> of 5 separate documents (saved as .swfs) with a behavior
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>
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