Simple Stop and Play

I have been trying to create a very simple slideshow for a
friends site I done for him to advertise his
business. The photos,
I suggested would be better if they were done as a slideshow and
the idea was to have each picture fade in, stop, click to play,
fade out fade in next, stop, etc etc.
I have tried every tutorial I can find and done most of the
things in the Visual Quick Start Guide Macromedia Flash 8 and still
I cannot get it to work. All I really want is to stop, click and
play at each point along the timeline at regular points.
Can anyone please help me with this. The .fla I am working on
can be found
here
Any help will be greatly appreciated as I am running out of
hair left to pull out.
Nig

I have made changes to your file. It now works as you want.
Email me so I can send it to you.
chosenson Please reference
this post in the subject line.
Thanks

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