drat, then i think i am going to have to do my other plan, have the next button hidden in an unusual place (different design to make it less weird) covered by the animation. Atleast im pretty sure i can assume that users wont be clicking around randomly for no reason and i could put a timer on the button so that atleast they wont figure it out. A lot of trickery but i doubt any of our users will see through it.
cheers anyways, shame that there's no way around this that is logically simple.