can anyone help me with a newbie question? How do I limit the time for a page to appear........I would like the animation to show but then automatically link to the next page??????

It is not something that is easy to explain. But the concept is by implementing a loop. This is accomplished useing the expressions editor. Basically you start your flash animation and have it run for X amount of frames. Flash uses a frame rate of 15 frames per second. Once the animation gets to the last frame you loop it back to the beginning and increment a counter. By using simple mathematics you can figure out ho many times you want to loop the animation. EX. you want to change pages after 30 seconds. Your animation is 30 frames 30 frames devided by 15 frames per second equals 2 seconds running time. So you would need to loop the animation 15 times to use up 30 seconds. 15 X 2 = 30 It would take too much space to explain set by set on how to set this up. I just hope it starts you off in the right direction.