Redirecting to specific frame of flash movie

Hi, im creating a flash website, in which the entire user interface is flash based, i was wondering if there is an easy way to set the site up so that if the user goes to www.example.com it goes to the home page, but if they type in www.example.com/page1, the flash video will start on the page 1 frame, and if they change this to /page5, it will go to the page 5 frame.
So far the only solution i can see is recreating the flash file to have the page 1 frame as the first frame, so when users navigate to the /page1 page, it will be a unique movie clip, starting on the page1 frame, and for every page have a unique movie clip starting on the frame corresponding to the page.
Any other ways to do it? maybe in actionscript, or html? I will probably set the site up in dreamweaver, but any solution that will work is better than recreating the movie for every single page.
Thanks

I have never worked with them, but you should look into using anchors in the timeline to see if that would be agreeable to you. If you search Google for "Flash anchors" you will probably find some info about them. It involves creating frame labels that you specify as anchors (in the drop down below the frame label textfield). Then, you can use something similar to normal html anchors to link to land at the frame.... www.example.com/#page1 (I have no idea if this is correct)

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