Simple "next" buttons & off stage question

Hi, just getting myself reaquainted with Flash after not using it since ActionScript 1.0 was around.
I'm having trouble creating a simple "storybook" for my son. I'm wanting to add a "next" button in the corner of each page to jump to (and play) the next scene. I've tried with frame labels and numbers, been searching online for 2 days but nothing I've found seems to work.
Can anyone help?
here is the fla file: http://db.tt/IbZeiv6
Also, the things I make are for my Android phone and tablet, is there a way I can stop the things off stage from showing?
for example, I am making it mainly for my tablet, but if I play it on my phone, it has a slightly different aspect ratio so there's white borders at the top & bottom (project has a white background) and if something is slightly off stage it shows over the white background at the top/bottom, is there a way to stop this?
thanks in advance

Should be like this:
stop();
cover_next.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClick);
function buttonClick(event:MouseEvent):void{
gotoAndStop(1,"Page1");
For off stage please use mask on the stage. Better change your framerate(FPS) to 24.

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According to wiki "the documentation from Apple states that Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista is requisite for a Boot Camp installation, and it also mentions that trying to install an unsupported operating system could prevent the computer from booting even into Mac OS X". Sure that was from wiki, but it does seem to support and somewhat validate the problem I had with installing an earlier edition of XP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BootCamp_%28software%29#Other_operatingsystems
Thanks for the info on the Filesystem info. My problem is that installing OS X on a mac is just a little bit more technical than installing Windows on a PC as there are a few more things to consider. Plus I'm not familiar with any of the utility programs as well. It's a **** miracle I managed to somehow create a volume to install OS X on when I thought I was erasing the partition I created for WinXP.
But I'm still not sure about the missing 40GB from my 500GB HDD. Upon coming to the desktop straight after OS X was fully re-installed I noticed that the HDD only had 460GB and that 440GB of it available space. So the full installation of OS X was 20GB, but where has the other 40GB gone? I swear I saw that I had much more available space on my harddrive (BEFORE I tried to partition my HDD under Boot Camp Assistant and stuffing up the computer). Is the missing 40GB from the ORIGINAL FACTORY INSTALL of OS X INCLUDING all my iTunes music and other files I uploaded to the computer earlier? It would make sense but there's no way, as far as I know, of checking this. Any ideas?
Cheers.

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