Presentation format - looping, auto advance, etc

Any and all guidance would be SUPER appreciated, and you
would be helping me help the 3rd world train to fight HIV! The big
advantage to the "Slides" format is that we can more quickly lay in
international language voiceover, but I HAVE to get these bugs
worked out first... I have this training demo:
http://www.invmed.info/pub/flash/
- I'm very happy with it but I need a couple very important
elements in place.
I've searched the forums, found nothing on LiveDocs, spent
half an hour in the book store looking for ANY solid information on
slide behavior. Was the Slides feature just never fleshed out? I
had these tricks worked out on a standard timeline, but I can't get
it working on Slides...
1. Whenever a slide comes up, I need its animation to play.
It's flawless by default the
first time, but if a student backs up, they have to push
replay (which is why I made the button). This is especially bad if
they restart the demo from the end - every slide is stuck on the
last frame. Is there an obvious setting I'm overlooking? It's got
to be based on the slides function somewhere right?
2. Speaking of the replay-slide button, if I wanted that to
be part of the "master slide," what would the script be? Right now
I'm using:
on (release) {
//Movieclip GotoAndPlay Behavior
this.gotoAndPlay("1");
//End Behavior
...but it doesn't work when placed on the master slide (which
is a drag, I thought that was the point of a master right?).
3. Finally, how do you make the slides progress at their own
pace (for tradeshows etc)? I thought I had found a usable answer to
this but I think I was too stupid to code it correctly (I'm
dyslexic so extensive code & I don't play well together).
Thank you!

you should always use a master slide for anything you will use across many screens.

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