Pause/Pause button that applies to everything

My Original Post:
I have been designing a visual presentation in Flash CS5, there are a few movie clips on the stage that are set to play at a certain time/frame. The problem I am having is that I am not familiar with coding/actions. I want to have a play and a pause button so I can pause at any point (not a specified frame) and discuss with the audience. Then I want to be able to click the play button to resume from that point (wherever I paused from). I hope to get help and be able to learn from your answers. I don't know how clear my question is, but I can clarify if you need me to...
Thank you very much!
A Reply:
you can stop/play any movieclip by using the movieclip's reference:
your_mc.stop();
your_mc.play();
My Reply:
Thank you for your suggestion, I tried using this, but I may still be doing this wrong. What I am trying to do is set it up so that I can click play and have everything play and then when I hit pause it will stop until I hit play again. I want to pause randomly, it is a presentation and I will have random questions where I will need to pause it. I have been getting many errors, but I do not know meanings
I have attached a photo to hopefully back-up what I am attempting to explain.

please don't cross-post or open multiple threads covering the same issue.

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