Slide shows via Adobe flash player

Question

I'm using macromedia flash player (version=4,0,2,0) to
display a slide show on my website (as an .swf flash video). Is it
possible to add a variable to the player code so that the flash
video does not start automatically but rather requires user input
(such as a mouseclick) to start the video?
As a newbie, I'd appreciate any help on this.
Here's the embed code for the player: <OBJECT
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4,0,2,0"
ID=crocky-2 WIDTH=500 HEIGHT=333>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE=""> <PARAM NAME=quality
VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#000099> <EMBED
src="" quality=high bgcolor=#000099 WIDTH=500 HEIGHT=333
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></E MBED>
</OBJECT>

Answer 1

Start your slideshow on frame 2.
Make a new layer and put a blank keyframe on frame 1 and 2.
On frame 1, use the text tool to write the words, "Click to
Play" or whatever you want.
Using the Selection tool, right click the text and convert it
to a symbol. Call it whatever you want. Once it is created, select
it with the Selection tool and in the properties window give it the
instance name "play".
Create a new layer, title is Actions and in the first frame
put the following action script in the action script window.
stop();
play.onPress = down;
function down() {
gotoAndPlay(2);
Your embed code is peculiar in that the <EMBED src="" is
blank. Not sure what that's about.
If you're slideshow is looping, you may want to put this on a
blank keyframe of the Actions layer on the last frame (or at the
point in which you want it to start over again at frame 2):
gotoAndPlay(2);