Photoshop Action Play Button Inactive

The Actions Play Button has suddenly become inactive, i.e. regardless of which Action I now select the Play Button remains unclickable. A circle with bar appears when I hover over the Play Button.
This happened at some point while I was editing an Image in CS3 (Windows XP SP2). I had run one (of many Actions) I have successfully. When I came back to it (or any other Action) a short time later none of my actions could be invoked. I have tried several different images, I am sure I have highlighted the background layer when I try any of the Actions. I have restarted the Photoshop, and I have rebooted my computer. I have done several web searches and seen a few other posts about this problem, but so far have been unable to find a solution.
Thanks in advance,
Ken

hiya!
this issue might be worth checking up on if video is playing (and you can hear it) but the audio isn't:
iTunes for Windows: Audio files do not play in iTunes 5 or 6
love, b

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"Chris Jumonville" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I created a slide show in flash (I'm very new to Flash).
The slideshow
>works great so far. I recently added some buttons to the
slideshow (each
>in their own respective layers) and the buttons are Prev,
Play, Stop, Next.
>I want to add actions to each of those buttons with the
action script. I
>want the Stop button to simply stop the movie whenever
you press the
>button, the play button I want to simply play the
slideshow if one has
>pressed the stop button (by default my slideshow starts
when it loads).
>The next and play buttons are obvious what they will do.
I'm wondering how
>I go about adding these actions to each button. I know
how to add them to
>the buttons but I just don't know the proper Action
Script code. Can anyone
>help me out with this. Can't seem to find a good tutorial
on it!
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Chris Jumonville
> iMedia Web Design
> 503.277.3553
>

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