Thanks Agent Vived, this action scripting is totally baffling me. My main movie consists of 3 layers, all ending on Frame 55. This is my background animation. I've then loaded my external swf on a new layer using a blank MC
loadMovie ("index3b.swf", "_root.loadup"); at frame 55 also.
This works ok, i still see my background by using a stop in the 3rd layer of my main movie. Now is where i'm stuck. I have a 2nd SWF i want to load but i was hoping i could load it while my first external SWF is playing. Just the way both are designed, they would converge to make the overall movie but it has to be at the right time. This means all movies need to be visible at the same time. My main movie and my two external SWF movies. Do you know a way to do this? If this is not possible or is just too complicated, i guess i'll have to restart over again.

Thanks for your help.