Edit placement of default playback buttons?

We would like to get rid of our custom foward and back buttons that

are placed with a slide count widget in the middle hovering over a default skin

playback bar, but we want to move the standard > and < buttons to the  right of the progress bar (client request). I tried moving them in Flash but the custom  playback bar just showed up in the Skin Editor withthe buttons  unchecked. When checked, they appeared in their normal place and not  working. Aparently I need much better Flash skills, but wanted to ask if anyone knew a simple way to modify because the Skin Editor doesn't let me do much.