Slide advancing when it shouldn't

I have a swf which will go into an LMS. The slide in question
has 3 click boxes; 1 used as a back button (go to previous slide),
1 used to advance the user (It's a software demo so they are
clicking objects), the 3rd click box executes javascript which
opens the glossary in the LMS.
Before adding the 3rd click box everything was fine. The 3rd
click box works, as in it opens the glossary. However, when I click
the this click box it opens the glossary and then advances the
slide. It's set to Infinite attempts, no captions, Show hand cursor
over hit area is checked. Set to display the rest of the slide.
The click box which is intended to advance the slide is set
to Pause until user clicks, pause for captions.

Hi Christine
That option isn't only available for JavaScript. It's also
available for URLs too. The trick (as I replied in the other post
which may be viewed by
clicking
here) is to first choose 'New" from that drop down.
Cheers... Rick

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