Need help with Audio controller or cue points

Haven't set up the actual project yet. Just trying to
determine best method. Will be using Flash Pro 8.
Goal: create an initial page showing a TOC that represents
chapters in an hour long audio piece. Clicking a topic brings them
to a certain point in the audio. Once leaving the TOC, the user
will see a still PPT jpg associated with that section of audio. But
they'll also need access to an audio controller so they can scrub
to different portions of the audio. Once they let up, the PPT image
needs to change -- if they went to a different section.
So at first I thought about a regular flash set-up with the
audio spanned throughout the timeline, PPT images set-up throughout
the timeline, and frame labels to jump to. But I couldn't figure
out how to set up an audio controller with this set-up.
Then I thought about a Flash Slide Presentation set-up using
a Media Playback component with the Media Controller component and
cue points. I've looked at some of the on-line examples of this and
they seem to work when playing forward but I notice that when you
scrub backwards that the images fall out of synch. It seems if you
have cues A, B and C and if you begin dragging from the C cue and
let up BEFORE the B cue the image displays B. It should be
displaying A though since your somewhere in-between A and B. But A
doesn't show unless you scrub back far enough to cross the A cue
time.
So what is the best method. It seems the latter if there was
only a way to calculate the time between the two cues. For instance
"if time is >A but <B then display A".
But the first example with the long timeline and frame labels
would be fine if there was a nice controller out there that I could
implement.
And remember I need to be able to jump to any spot in the
audio clip from the TOC menu on the first screen.
Thanks!

Is it AVCHD, Mini-DV, or DVD? What format does the camera record to?

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my second cue point at 00:00:03:27 called "draw"
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my fifth cue point at 00:00:14:29 called "You Lose"
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///first frame:
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var hitHim:Boolean = false;
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vStream.client = client;
var myVideo:Video = new Video(418, 480);
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addChild(myVideo);
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target_mc.visible = false;
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stop();
When I have no audio it works perfectly, no problems. When I bring audio in i re-render it as a .mov file and bring it back into After Effects and add the cue points to it. Than i re-render it out again as a flv file. When i bring it into my flash project it will work when the looping variable does just one loop and my target will appear so you can click on it or not. But when the looping variable makes it loop 2 to 10 times it skips over the catching (the part of the clip if you clip the button) and goes directly to the dropping of the can, not giving you the option of clicking the button. So basically it skips the "draw" or second cue point of my game and goes to "You Lose" cue point.
Any suggestions?

Hi,
The latest audio driver for your machine is on the following link.
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp59501-60000/sp59649.exe
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The xspf player will autostart and autoresume...
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