Use of button throughout movie

Hey,
I'm fairly new to Adobe Flash and I've been looking around for an answer to this question so it's either really simple, or I did find something that's hard to answer.
I am trying to create an interactive map of the computer lab I work in. Right now you can only click on the computers in the lab if you're in the first frame. I'm trying to make it so that you can open up the bio of any computer from any frame where that computer is visible. Is this possible?
Also, this hasn't stopped my script from running, but I keep getting a warning that I don't understand how to get rid of. There are six of them and they're all basically the same thing just at different frames. Here's the first one: Duplicate label, Scene=Scene 1, Layer=Actions, Frame=325, Label=Detail Mouse - Ungroup. When I go to the layer and frame number there is nothing I can see that is wrong.
Thanks in advance for any and all help.

The timeline consists of layers. What I often do is create an actionscript layer that I dedicate to functions/code that I want to make accessible to the entire movie. All of the code goes in the first frame, but the layer is extended to the end of the timeline (just insert a regular frame at the end to extend it). I'll create another layer for code that is designated for lserving a local purpose only, such as stop(); commands and code specific to a particular item at a particular time.

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