.swf end of movie

Hello guys,
First of all I'm not a flash or flex coder, so please pardon
my lack of knowledge about it.
Here is our story ...
We have about 50 flash presentations (each less than a
minute) on a web server. The web service written in .NET is getting
the list of all .swf files (these files were made in Flash8, and I
believe it's ActionScript 2.0) and passing it on to a Flex front
end application.
What we want to do on the flex side is, play these
presentations randomly, one after the other (may be add a minute or
half a minute delay between each presentation).
I was talking to the guy who is working on Flex side and he
said, basically, Flex is ActionScript 3.0 and Flash movies are
ActionScript 2.0, so Flex would not know when the first movie ended
for it to start another one.
My question is, is it at all possible to do what we are
trying to do in Flex? If it is then how do we go about it?
If you could only point us in the right direction, that would
be great too (Of course, if you guys have more detailed answers
they are very welcome)
Thanks,

Flash does not dispatch any events when it reaches its last
frame. I'm going to assume that the SWFs cannot be rewritten. What
I suggest is writing one more Flash 8 SWF. This one would use
LocalConnection to communicate with Flex (there's an article about
this on my blog, just search for LocalConnection). This new SWF
would also load all of the other SWFs and monitor their running.
When it completes, use LocalConnection to tell the Flex SWF that
the movie had completed. Flex could then communicate back when it
was time to load another SWF.
I'm sure there are some other ways to do this, but that's
what comes off the top of my head.

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