Help with Flash timeline and playing movieclip....

OK here's the situation...My Movieclip is 50 Frames long. I want to be able to play the MC and stop at Frame 25 where the movie displays 3 buttons. From this point I want the buttons to be able to go to their respective scenes. But I want the MC to finish playing the rest of the Movieclip...Is this possible??

I don't know if you want to play the button scene before or after finishing out to frame 50 so I've written what I think will work for either case.

Playing button scene after finishing out to frame 50

on the release of each button set a variable defining which button was pressed and add a statement to goto frame 26 and play

button 1 actions:
on (release) {
nextclip=1;
gotoAndPlay(26);
}
button 2 actions:
on (release) {
nextclip=2;
gotoAndPlay(26);
}
button 3 actions:
on (release) {
nextclip=3;
gotoAndPlay(26);
}

then in frame 50 add the following actions

if (nextclip==1) { add code to send to button 1 scene }
if (nextclip==2) {add code to send to button 2 scene }
if (nextclip==3) {add code to send to button 3 scene }

Playing button scene before finishing out to frame 50

Play your button scene and at the end of each button scene add the following action:

gotoAndPlay("original scene name", 26)

the original scene name should be the scene that the buttons were in and should also have the double quotes surrounding it.

It worked perfectly! I figured there was some kind of variable that I needed to make this work. I originally had only 2 buttons, but when I added the 3rd, there were problems. But this worked great. I can finally move on!!