Please help! Shouldn't be hard at all..

I've had Macromedia Flash 5 for quite some time now... But I've never successfully made a Flash animation. Please help with the following questions, I will be sooo grateful!!

1) How do you make sure the animation doesn't loop when you publish it?

2) How do you make it stop, so that a person can click on a button, and then go to a different frame, without playing the first part over again?

3) How do you make so that while it is loading you can have an image already loaded and have it saying "Please wait until loaded" or whatever????

Sorry if I'm confusing you, I'm not really sure what I'm doing at all.... lol If you can help, thanks so much!!

Those questions cover a pretty broad area....

I suggest you launch Flash..... go to the "help" menu and dig around in there. Macromedia is one company that really does a GREAT job on the help files.

If you haven't... actually do the tutorials that are available in the Flash "help" menu.... they will shed some light on 2 of the questions you asked.