My menu seems to be heavy and I dont know why. Help?

[Tiruak]

Hi there. Thanks in advance for the people reading and trying to help.

I'm very begginer using flash and action script, and I tryed to do this one navigation menu. Since I dont have experience doing this, I did things in a way I thought it should work, to create the onmouseover animation of the buttons of my navigation menu.

After a couple days working on it, I managed it to work almost the way I wanted it to, with 2 exceptions that I would like some help to fix.

1 - When I pass the mouse over the buttons, it seems like alot of times it doesnt start the event. I hear the .wav but the jumping text animation doesnt trigger. I need to pass the mouse very slow to make it happen.

2 - Second problem I have is that when the animation finishes, the button returns to it's original state, instead of the last keyframe of the OnMouseOver animation, even if I keep my mouse on top of the button.

Now, since I have no experience, I probably did some mistakes with the animation it self, placing it inside the wrong frame, or stoping it the wrong time. I keep trying diferent things, but all I manage to do is making the app to stop working at all.

The animation can be found at the top of this beta of the site

http://www.beyondthebytes.com/quote.html

and the .fla file is ziped here:

http://www.beyondthebytes.com/header_menu.zip

I'm using Flash CS3 and AS3 for the links

I dont know if this is ok or not (to post links here), so if it's not feel free to delete or ignore it.

thanks alot for any advice

[Tiruak]

Ok, about my first problem.

Searching a bit more into my work, I noticed that changing the document fps from 12 to 30 helped a bit. Not sure if this was the only problem tho.
I will keep researching and asking around. Any insight will be greatly appreciated

[Tiruak]

Alright, I found what was wrong with my menu.

To the first problem, I figured was really the low fps. I changed from 12 (standard for flash I guess) to 30fps, and it started to work much better.

Second problem was because of a mistake I did. I inserted AS to stop my animation from repeating forever while mouse over, but I did it on the very first frame of my AS layer. So I created a blank keyframe at the end of the OnMouseOver animation and did the stop there, correcting the problem.

Even tho nobody answered, you guys have always been helpfull, so I figured I should post the correction to what I did, and maybe help someone else with a similar question.

Thanks a bunch