Newbie Script Help CS4

Hello all, I'm starting to learn flash and scripting and i have run into a problem. I have made navigational buttons to flags i have established in the time line, and i have tow movie clips, one that plays before the other. So far i have a stop action when the first movieclip plays, and i tries adding this inside the movie clip...
stop();
gotoAndPlay("print");
I can't seem to get the movie clip to jump to the next flag in the main root of the scene. can any one help. thanks in advance.
-Mario

Interesting. I copied it from this code for a script written for CS2 that applies a thumbnail script to multiple documents:
// docs is a reference to the Documents collection, that holds all open documents
docs = app.documents;
for (i=0; i < docs.length; i++) {
// instead of getting the active document, iterate through each open doc
doc = docs.index(i);
I just tested your script on our workflow and it almost works. I don't get the error I was getting before, so thank you for fixing that. Our workflow is apparently the issue now. I'm getting the error, "You can only duplicate layers from the frontmost document." How can I rewrite the script so that our logo PSD doesn't have to be already open--and thus in doc[0] position--as our action cycles through each photo?
What my wife wants to be able to do is batch cycle through a set of photographs, have an action (or script, or combination of the two) copy the layer set over to the currently open photo, relocate and possibly resize the logo on that photo, then save and close the photo and have the next one automatically open to repeat the process.
I really didn't expect this to be so time-consuming. I've now spent three hours trying to psych this out. Thanks again for the help.
Clint

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> I have bought a price comparison script. Unfortunately
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> PHP and I do not know PHP.
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