Problems with Flash thumbnail gallery

Question

Hi there,
I am an artist trying to remake my website...I have a picture of a window on my homepage. The window is a movie. When clicked on, the window lights turn on and a grid of thumbnail pics appear. Each thumbnail is a movie clip. When a thumbnail is clicked on, the movie plays and a larger image appears over the window. The problem is, the window is still active underneath the large image, so if I click on the large image, I am really clicking on the window movie clip underneath, and the thumbnail grid disappears-starting the window movie clip over. How do I make the window clip inactive after it is initially clicked?
Also, I would like the larger images to end their movie clips after another thumbnail is clicked, so that there aren't large images piled up on top of each other.
Is there anyone that can help?
Thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

Hi again,
First off, thanks so much for your continued help...
So, I changed my design a little and format. Now I'm using as3, with Flash CS5.
My thumbnail gallery is still based on the same concept, I want a movie clip of a window to be clicked on that reveals a thumb grid, but now the thumbnail gallery should appear over the window, and the large portfolio images appear in the blank space to the right. I followed a tutorial for the gallery, here's my code on the main timeline:
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, GetFirstImage)
function GetFirstImage (evt:MouseEvent) {
          gotoAndStop("pic1")
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
btn2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, GetSecondImage)
function GetSecondImage (evt:MouseEvent) {
          gotoAndStop("pic2")
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
btn3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, GetThirdImage)
function GetThirdImage (evt:MouseEvent) {
          gotoAndStop("pic3")
But now I don't know how to go about adding in the initial movie clip of the window (which when clicked should light up and fade into the thumbnail grid) Right now I just have the gallery set up. How do I set up a movie that contains my gallery?
Sorry if the question is redundant, but as you know, I'm new to actionscript.
Thanks!