flash ad development: Kinda a newbie at the flash banner thing, but I am creating a flash banner ad
for a client which will fun on a 3rd party website. Their rules stipulate that
the banner ad can only loop 3 times. Is there a way for me to do this apart
from duplicating the animation 3 times? I only have a 40k limit, so if I could
make it loop 3 times using actionscript verses duplicating the frames, it will
save me some precious size.

thanks for any help you can give.

There certainly is. In fact, David Stiller has shared how to do this exact task
with us on his blog:
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/how-to-loop-three-times

Good luck! Let me know if you need any more help.