It's not the "frames" that are "connected" - it's that the one and only
symbol you have is what is referred to as an "instance" of the object in the
library. Symbols are a powerful feature of Flash - you can reuse them as
many times as you like without bloating the file size of your SWF.
Now, if you have 100 instances of this 1 symbol on stage, then edit the
object inside of it - all the other 99 instances will be affected. What you
want to do is DUPLICATE (right click over it) and give it a new name. Then
edit the duplicate.

-chris

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"ChrisBrewster" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I was trying to reproduce a training procedure for making an animation. The
> procedure starts by adding a symbol to a frame, reproduces the frame and
> changes the symbol a bit (making it a little narrower), and repeats that
> process in a series of frames. When I tried this, any change I made to my
> symbol (rotating it) for some reason made the same change in all of my
> onion
> frames. So the frames are connected in some way, and my shape is actually
> the
> same object in all of them. How do I make independent copies of the shape
> so
> that I can make it change in each frame?
>