Question - New to Flash

I am new to flash and building a simple picture slideshow with buttons for the next frame and previous frame to use on a website. I have two questions. 1. How do I get the pictures to start over at the beginning once I get to the last frame? Right now I can only got forward or backward. 2. I tried to use a video clip in the last keyframe and when I test the movie in Flash it works fine but when I posted the .swf file to the website all of the pictures played except the video clip. I am using the following action script:
stop();
next_btn.onRelease=function(){
nextFrame();
prev_btn.onRelease=function(){
prevFrame();
I am a complete rookie. Any help would be much appreciated. Also any recommendation on where to learn to work with action script would be useful
Thanks
MRCARZ

It looks like you are working with ActionScript 2.0 here where you would actually be hoping to integrate ActionScript
3.0 and above (3.0 is the latest out right now). The two types of AS are very different in structure and 3.0 is much more like JavaScript and other ECMA scripting languages that incorporate Object Oriented Programming (OOP). I don't know a lot about OOP other than it can be used to house Classes and call upon them in an organized fashion to save you a lot of coding in the long haul. Don't worry about OOP right now.
Where you should be looking for resources are online and in books. There are lots and lots of books about ActionScript 3.0--just check your favorite online book retailer and also do a web search for ActionScript 3.0 tutorials. You will probably find one that will explain how to code the logic for you to return to the first frame of your timeline and continue going in the forward direction and vice versa if you were rewinding and wanted to loop to the last frame and continue going in the backward direction of your timeline.
Also, there is the ActionScript 3.0 Reference Manual which ships with Flash and will allow you to look through code examples. Just go to your Help menu for Flash Help.
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