Thus defeating the object of flash? Right, its been years since i've done this, and its actually quite long winded, so i'll try and simplify it, and you can fill in the gaps. Make your main layout etc, make lots of keyframes each with the flash action script command of "stop;" attached to it. For each keyframe, copy the main layout, and change it how you want. Should be doing this anyway, but make a new layer and make your navigation with buttons. For the button, select the "click" event and attach a go to frame event. I can select various events from a big list, then even select the frame. Do that for each button, and as each keyframe has "stop;" attached to it, it will just go there, and stay. Thats the most simplific way.