Why does this cause it to skip?

ok I will try that out

well, to everyone's great surprise, it didn't work. I can't figure it out...any other ideas

ok so I have got it to stop on the first frame of the movie. using this code on the movie itself

Code:

---

onClipEvent (load) {
        stop();
}
on (keyPress "<Space>") {
        play();
}

---

but I tried copying and pasting these frames, to make it loop a second time, and it just keeps looping. It just keeps replaying with no stop, it doesn't even go back to the first overall frame of the flash file. Any ideas how to fix that?

Seriously just post your file somewhere. You are not listening to anyones advice and seem to keep venturing off into your own copy/paste routines. You really do need to take the time to actually learn the basics of flash before delving into it like you are man.

I can't post it...