Question : Flash game only works correctly after refreshing the page

Please take a look at the following website: http://www.mediaslalom.com/ (Please be patient while the game loads, we are working on reducing the file size).

On all of the computers we have tested this on, when you first load it, after you click on the 'Start' button, you see a countdown from 3...2...1... Go, but then it loops indefinitely. We are not sure why. The weird part is, if you refresh the website, it works fine. We cannot figure out the problem, and it is beginning to drive us insane.

That countdown timer is in a movieclip, which is placed on the main timeline. At the end of that movieclip, we have the following code:

stop();
MovieClip(this.parent).goToNextFrame();

(Originally we called MovieClip(this.parent).play(), but we tried creating our own function to see if that would solve the problem).

Then, on the main timeline, in the same frame, we have the following code:

function goToNextFrame(){
      trace("Proceeding to next frame...");
      play();
}

It seems pretty simple to me. We can't understand why it isn't working correctly. Any help would be appreciated.

We are using Flash CS3 and Actionscript 3.0.

Answer : Flash game only works correctly after refreshing the page

Could it be the fact that whatever condition needs to exist for the game to start is dependent on a function or call that hasn't loaded the first time round because the movie can play to the point of the countdown without loading fully?

Refreshing the page allows the swf to load instantly (from the cache) which means the function called (or whatever) after the countdown happens is available to the movie that time around?