Play a movieclip in reverse

I'm creating a movieclip that shows some photo samples with
two arrows at the bottom. I want it so that if the user presses on
the right arrow, the movie clip plays forward and goes toward the
end to "shuffle" through the image samples. But I would also like
them to be able to press on the left arrow and be able to play the
movieclip backwards to "shuffle" back toward the beginning of the
images.
The closest thing I can think of that would be similar to
this would be the way you can shuffle through album images in
iTunes.
I just need to know the Actionscript 2.0 code to play the
movieclip in reverse.
Thanks.

I settled on a solution, maybe not the best one, but it
works.
I made a movieclip which goes to frame 2 on rollOver:
on(rollOver){
gotoAndStop(2);
_global.backward = 1;
on(rollOut){
gotoAndStop(1);
_global.backward = 0;
_parent.stop();
On the second frame of that movielcip I placed another
movieclip outside of the stage and put the following code on it:
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
_parent._parent.gotoAndStop(_parent._parent._currentframe -
1);
if(_parent._parent.tn1._currentframe != 1 &&
_parent._parent._currentframe == 1) {
_parent._parent.gotoAndStop(33);
The extra code about going to frame 33 is to get the main
movieclip with the picture thumbnails to loop and the check to make
sure tn1 isn't on frame 1 is just to make it stop going backward
once it's at the very beginning of the photos. The _global.backward
variable it just to make sure the pictures cycle properly.
Instead of having a really long movieclip with numerous
photos scrolling from offscreen I just made one movieclip and put
each photo thumbnail on a seperate frame within it. Then, I just
put six instances of that movieclip on the screen at one time and
once the first one has gotten offscreen I just have some code cycle
all of them so it looks like one continuous scroll.
The only problem I'm still having is that when it loops in
reverse (meaning it jumps from frame 1 to frame 33) there is a
slight jerking of all the thumbnails. I'm not sure why this is
happening because when playing forward, they look perfectly smooth
even when the movieclip loops.
If anyone has a suggestion, let me know.
Thanks.

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