Opening URLs in a flash movie

Hi Everyone,
I tried posting this in the general flash forum with no sucess. I'm guessing my question is more geared towards AS3 anyway. So here goes:
I've created a flash intro for a website and I have it setup so that in the first frame of the intro it opens a popup window, and then in the last frame it opens the actual site in the same window as the intro. Right now when it hits the last frame it opens up the popup window a second time! In a lot of cases this would be fine but the popup is a music player and the two players playing on top of eachother just doesnt work.
The code I've used for opening the popup window is:
var url:URLRequest = new URLRequest("player.html"); navigateToURL(url, "_blank");
the code used in the last frame to move to the site is:
var urlReq:URLRequest=new URLRequest('index2.html');
navigateToURL(urlReq,'_self');
Any help would be appreciated!
I have the site in question in a temp location currently and it can be viewed here: http://www.janosoto.com/temp
Thanks!

Wow, simply amazing! This did the trick, and I thank you very much!
Now that I've gotten this project finished it makes me want to learn more about flash, and AS3 in particular. Funny how a simple solution can ease so much stress. I had set it up so that instead of on the first frame launching the popup it just did it at the last frame when it launched the site. However I knew my client wouldn't be satisfied with that as small as it sounds.
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