using macromdeia flash 8 to create a play animation button

ok i'm having trouble creating a simple button, that when pressed, plays the animation from another layer/ or same layer. Then once the animation stops it goes back to the first frame ( the frame where my button is, so the user can choose to press play again if they want to)
i've googled this, but it just seems that all the tutorials i've looked at didn't really tell me anything.
i've made my button like this: [Play] then once you click on it, it changes colour. The problem i'm having is that i dont reallly know how this action script works or if you suppose to add or change any of the default code that they give you.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

At the end of your animation, put a "goto and stop" and whatever frame your button was on. Sorry I can't be more clear, I don't have flash installed and I'm nost sure of the exact wording of things. So, let's say your button is on frame 1, the animation plays on frame 2? Put a stop action on frame 1 so the animation doesn't play until you press the button. Then on the button put a "goto and play" frame 2 so the animation will play. Then at the end of the animation. Put the "goto and stop" back to frame 1. Not sure if this is what you're talking about but hope it helps. And I'm a flash newb so someone might have a much easier and faster way of doing it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

the actionscript for the first button is gotoAndPlay(); so would i have to put anything inside the () ...
heres a screenshot, i dunno if this will help
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/6922/untitled4cx.jpg

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

The code should look like this:

on (release) {
  gotoAndPlay(2);
}

How ya doing, buddy?

THX~ it works...finally

I was speaking idiomatically.