Hi,

I played about with flash intros for a little while and came to the conclusion that whilst they can look really good, they only look good the first or second time, after that they start to get a bit annoying, having to wait for them to end etc.

To combat this i always added a button underneath the intro that said "click here to go straight to the index" or something along those lines. This did two things:

First it allowed people who didn't want to see it to skip it. They might not want to see it for a number of reasons, but the most common are that they've seen it before and are bored of it, or that they have a slow connection and it would take a long time to load it.

Secondly it got around the problem of working out how to forward them when it finished because they just did it themselves.

Not quite the answer you are looking for, but rather my experience with flash intro's.

Hope it helps, post the url when you're finished making it.

EDIT: And i too agree with Omin that putting a timed delay would be temperemental at best. The only thing more annoying than being forced to watch a flash intro is to then be cheated out of seeing the ending