Please help - motion tween + single frame

ok , so i know how to do motion tween... and i know how to do single frame swap outs (like for a mouth) but i can't do both
here is how i have it set up,
full body
(double click that)
head
(double click that)
face
i have the head as single frame so i can use several mouths, but would also like the head to motion tween. is this possible?
-Jarrod
[email protected]
www.jgecek.blogspot.com

Awesome, thanks so much , i got it to work. I'm new at flash, so it's still confusing WHY that worked, but it's working none the less.
Now to make it LOOK good!
-Jarrod

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A: PLEASE HELP--gotoandPlay plays through frames I dont want it to.

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"[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
news:f0b17u$5ot$[email protected]..
> Hello--I am an architecture student and I am having
problems with my Flash
> website. I have uploaded my half-done website on
>
http://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/msgoyak/WORLD_SHARED/
>
> My animations end on frame 311, where I have five
buttons linking to
> different
> frames (The Resume button links to 312 and the About Me
button links to
> 313
> using
> on (release) {gotoAndPlay(frame number);
>
> }
> I also have "back" buttons on 312 and 313 which link
back to 311. All
> three
> frames have the stop command applied.
> My problem: Whenever I publish and try to click on
Resume or About Me, it
> will
> only play to 312 due to the stop command, thereby not
allowing me to get
> to the
> About Me frame (313). I have tried taking away the stop
command but then
> when I
> click on the About Me button the timeline plays through
312 to get to 313
> and
> you can actually see it flash through on-screen. I just
want ithese
> buttons to
> jump to their respective frames and stop, without seeing
anything
> in-between or
> stopping where it shouldn't. Is there a specific actions
script that
> needs to
> be applied or would it be easier to create new flash
documents for each
> link?
>
> Hopefully someone can help m after viewing the website
itself.
> I have version 7 MX 2004.
> Thank you if you can provide any feedback!!!!!!
Hopefully this frustration
> thing can be corrected.
>
>

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