Self-spawning Movie Clips Don't Run AS2

Hello,
I have made a preloader, and to make the bar appear earlier during the loading process, I made every movie clip except the preloader files have "Export in first frame unchecked." Since I did this, my game doesn't run the movie clips anymore. I had enemy units come across the screen randomly, and now nothing appears at all. What will solve this? If you need the .FLA or a screenshot, please let me know.
MrA615.

The movie clips still aren't starting at frame 3.
Here is a screenshot. Am I doing it right? Whoops, when I said Layer, I meant Frame.
Message was edited by: MrA615

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Incubusguy wrote:
> My problem first appeared very simple, but I have spent
a while on it and can't
> think how to solve it. I must say that I am very much an
amateur in designing
> in Flash and ActionScript.
>
> I created a movie clip containing an embedded video and
a sound clip. In the
> main timeline I inserted the movie clip into a keyframe.
When I found the movie
> clip didn't play, I discovered that the only way of
making it play was to place
> a Stop action in the keyframe of the movie clip, and
also set the whole movie
> to loop. The Stop action stopped the whole movie from
looping, but instead made
> the movie clip loop. If the keyframe is on frame 456,
how do I make it advance
> onto frame 457 once the movie clip has finished running?
>
> I've tried various ways around the problem, including
placing a button inside
> the movie clip to Go to and Play frame 457, but instead
it plays frame 457 in
> the movie clip.
>
> Can anyone help me with this please?
>
>

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