OK, I solved my problem with the initial launching of the movie.....I went to Macromedia and got a cut down version of the HTML which worked.......the first movie launches but subsequent movies produce a "Director movie player error"... I think it may be the lingo, i tried play movie, gotoNetMovie, neither worked; I even included the URL in the movie spec just like in the code examples........if anyone knows the answer to this please email me at krel@infi.net.. Krel