nancyh, I tried a test and had the same problem with animation looping repeatedly as well. Other people have had the same problem too.

You might check out this post though:

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/s...=159484&page=2

The person named "Mazoonist" provided an example which worked and didn't loop. But he put his movie clip animation inside another movie clip on the main timeline. So perhaps in order for this to work, you must create your animation inside another movie clip rather than directly on the main timeline.

I wish I knew more myself.