Okay, I have a frame about 5 fames long. at the end of that little segment I
have stop(); obviously so I can stop the timeline, within those frames I hav
e a
movie clip about 25 frames long that can't play all the way through because 
of
the stop(); action which has to be there. is there any way I can ad some sor
t
of AS to have it play the movie clip regardless of the stop(); action?

"steveo23" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Okay, I have a frame about 5 fames long. at the end of that little
> segment I
> have stop(); obviously so I can stop the timeline, within those
> frames I have a
> movie clip about 25 frames long that can't play all the way through
> because of
> the stop(); action which has to be there. is there any way I can ad
> some sort
> of AS to have it play the movie clip regardless of the stop();
> action?

Movieclips play independently of the main timeline.  It doesn't matter
if the main timeline is 1 frame long or 500 frames long or if it stops
and starts 50 times.  The movieclip will do it's thing completely
separately.
The only thing that would make the movieclip stop playing is if it
goes out of 'scope', that is, it stops existing on the timeline.  If
you put your movieclip at frame 1 and the timeline is 25 frames long
with a stop at frame 25, just make sure that the layer with the
movieclip reaches all the way to frame 25.  If there are any blank
frames in the movieclip timeline then it will go out of existence.
Also, if you loop back to frame 1 where the movieclip is, a new copy
of the movieclip will come into existence and play from it's frame 1.
(don't loop to the frame that holds the clip)
hope that helps,
tralfaz