stop on a frame without stopping animation

[citisyn]

I'm working on a dynamic flash website, where certain frames in a scene are linked to buttons on a navigation bar inside the movie that load external .txt documents to a corressponding page/frame. The problem I am having is that the background animations (rotating icons, moving background images, etc.) stop moving completely with the "stop;" function.

I tried extending the length of the page that is displayed and put a gotoandplay command back to the beggining of where a page begins, but the animations are not in sync and results in a visual skipping broken record effect. The animations were converted into graphic symbols hoping that it would not interfere with the timeline, but no luck. I've also tried using different scenes for each page, but I fear this will severely hurt the overall loading time of the .swf.

Is there any way to stop the movie from advancing to the next frame without stopping the animations of my background images?

[ErikLindemann]

Have you tried putting your background image into a separate movie clip(symbol)?

That tends to work for me whenever something is stopped on a frame and I have animations in movie clips.

[citisyn]

after many hours of frustration, you have resolved the worst of my problems, thank you very much, but I still have a tad bit more to work on.