Thanks so much for taking the time.
I looked at the links you provided and those are very helpful indeed. I plan to study this further and also plan to use the best practices described in them going forward.
Meantime, I beg you to look at this FLA and tell me, if you will, why I can't go back to frame 1 in this movie using btn_back.

http://files.me.com/tgapen/qbwj38

Too large to upload here.