Slidelet causing imported SWF to advance

Hi,
I'm seeing some strange slidelet behavior. I have an imported
SWF on the slide, consisting of 8 frames. On the same slide are 2
slidelets. When rolling OFF either slidelet the imported SWF
advances 1 frame. The slidelets have their own screen real estate
and don't overlap or interact with the SWF in any way (other than
this advancing feature/bug ;-) I have tried adding movie stops to
each frame of the animation, but they seem to be ignored.
I have also tried various order combinations in the timeline
of the SWF and slidelets to no avail.
Ideas anyone?
Thanks,
John

Thanks for the suggestion, I think I understand what you are
trying to achieve. The thing is that the user is asked to interact
with the .swf and then roll over the answer(s) to question(s) about
the .swf. Although the .swf and slidelets could be on seperate
slides, I would prefer not having to switch back and forth between
slides in order to answer the questions. Before anyone asks 'why
not just use buttons with captions?', I have tried that, but
buttons (clickboxes and questions) don't reset
John

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