Rotating through an animation, hesitating with for loop?

I need to rotate through an animation sequence.

the animation is 40 frames long and I have stop frames on 1, 10, 20, 30, and 40.

everytime the user clicks the "rotate" btn, it will go through the animation

This is the code I have on the rotate button:

on (release) {
for (var i = 0; i<=5; i++) {
  _root.play();
  trace(i);
}
}

It works for the most part, BUT, once the animation starts over again,

it hesitates for a frame when you click the rotate button then it goes back

to normal.  

Is my for loop wrong?

Thanks for the help