Cycled ad problems

[PlsFlashMe]

I have a question about the flash ad on this site. Please forgive me if i
incorrectly explain the question I am asking. Im finding it difficult to
explain what im trying to ask.
FIrst I must explain how this ad is working so the question i am asking will
make more sense.
This flash ad on the top that cycles through ads 1-4
on frame one is ad #1.. on frame 120 is ad #2 on frame 240 is ad #3 and on
frame 360 is ad #4. I also have a frame label on each of these 4 ads of 1-4. SO
frame one also has a frame lable of 1. This is so my buttons on the bottom of
this ad when rolled over will go to whatever frame label of the ad button that
is rolled over.

This is how i have the buttons set up
Button one would be;

on(rollOver){
gotoAndStop("1");
}
on(rollOut){
gotoAndPlay("1");
}


Ok now for the question. What i need is to be able to animate something
between these frames. The problem I am having is that If i create a movie clip
the only way I can use it is if i want it to run in a continuous loop. Perfect
example of this would be ad # 2 in this flash example. the background is a
movie clip that just repeats. But what if i dont want it to? I cannot do a
stop() function on the movie clip because this causes my whole time line to
also stop at the end of playing whatever movie clip that had the stop()
function in it.
I want to be able to make my buttons animate or have an animation in these ads
that doesn't have to loop. Example of this
[url]http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/index.jsp[/url] when you mouse over a button on their
flash Ad the button will pop up a preview and then stop. If i were to do this
it would repeat that pop up animation over and over unless i put the Stop() but
if i do that it will stop everything and also stop my ad from cycling. Am I
making any sense? I don't know if there is a better function i should be
using... or if I just have this whole thing set up incorrectly in the first
place. Maybe there is option for call movie clip for given duration of time
then move on to another one ? Please any help would be greatly appreciated. I
can also send a working example if my explanation of this is not very good.
Thanks to anyone that can help me out.

[aniebel]

On the last frame of each animation (or cycle as you put it) put:

gotoAndPlay("1"); //for first animation
gotoAndPlay("2"); //for second animation
gotoAndPlay("3"); //for third animation
gotoAndPlay("4"); //for fourth animation

[robin1232]

on the frame you want the movieclip to stop on type
_root.whoami {
stop()
}

[robin1232]

I aint sure that works tough