I'm trying to make an animation (using Flash 8 Professional) have a beginning splash screen logo type of thing, using an imported image to my library. What I want it to do is fade in over a black background that's on another layer, and then after a while fade back out. The image alone didn't seem to recognize the transition, so I tried converting it to a movie clip. This didn't work either. Either it looked like the transition worked but then it went on a different layer and did absolutely nothing, or I kept getting this error message:

Exception in reverse: TypeError: tmpFrame has no properties
Exception in exportPreviewSWF: TypeError: instance has no properties
Error opening URL "file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Kyrianne/Local Settings/Application Data/Macromedia/Flash 8/en/Configuration/preview1.swf"
Exception in reverse: TypeError: tmpFrame has no properties


Is there any way to fix or work around this?? I'm a complete newbie to Flash, so any sort of help would be much appreciated.