As I feared, MOVIE_FRAME is read-only, so your idea will not work.
I'm going to mention this in the FUTURE section under my post on AVI sprites, since this is the only time that I would even need to control the playback frames dynamically.
Thanks for the suggestion though!
-WildCat
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