Need help with AS3 and user choices of display

[mjacob1]

I'm a graphic designer relatively new to Flash CS4 and AS3. I have created a self-playing intro movie that a user might want to choose NOT to show 6 of the 33 "pages" (movieClips). I have a star button that will take the user to a page with six choices of display/omit. I'm not sure how to set it up to make it do that. I am a previous user of Authorware; the user would click the Topic name (and it would change color) and it would write out a 1 or 2 to a text file. When the program was run it would check for the file and if it read a 1 it would play the page, 2 it would skip it. Someone suggested Flash cookies might be a good way to do this. I am completely lost.

[elindividuo123]

Hi I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do. Are you running different scenes one after the other? Are you running movie clips? are these movie clips displayed simultaneously or one after the other?

I'm attaching a zip file with an fla file that toggles movie clips on and off. I think it could help.

[mjacob1]

The whole thing is an introduction to orthodontics. Each "page" is its own movieClip (one frame on the main timeline). Some users will not want to show the pages talking about certian topics: adult braces, tmj, clear brackets, self-ligating brackets, color ligatures or clear retainer systems, since they might not use them in thier practice. At the end of each page it advances automatically to the next page with a dispatchEvent in the last frame of the mc. So I'd like the user to be able to go to a menu and choose what to display/omit and then have it go back to the beginning and remember those choices.