Beautifying the end of countdown timer

Hi,  
I'm Seimiya, I'm new to this community and I found here through yahoo search. I hope this community can help solve my queries.

1st of all, I created a countdown timer before the new year eve. And when new year arrived, I saw my timer goes to negative (-) sign.
E.e - Days, - Hrs, - Mins, - Sec - > - 00 days, - 08 hrs, - 12 mins, - 43 secs. Which I don't quite like it.

So what my problem now is the (-) sign, because I don't know how to make the timer stop when the day is arrived. So I need help from anyone here in this comunnity. I humbly request please do teach me, you can add me to msn (maxim_seimiya@hotmail.com) and leave some message like
"Hi, my name is ... and I'm willing to help you ... blah!"  

These are the things I hope you guys can teach me:
1) what's the script to remove the (-) sign.
2) what's the script to stop the timer when the day arrived.
3) Is it possible that I can make a picture show up when the countdown date arrived just like animated gif that will change the instance?  If can, the how do I make a new picture layer to show up?


Thank you and I'm looking forward for replies ^_^

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To get some help, first you need to post here the code you used to create the countdown timer you have at the moment.

ok ^_^ here is my scripts, Thanks for helping.

this.onEnterFrame = function() {

   var today:Date = new Date();
   var currentYear = today.getFullYear();
   var currentTime = today.getTime();
   
   var targetDate:Date = new Date(2010,1,1);
   var targetTime = targetDate.getTime();
   
   var timeLeft = targetTime - currentTime;
   
   var sec = Math.floor(timeLeft/1000);
   var min = Math.floor(sec/60);
   var hrs = Math.floor(min/60);
   var days = Math.floor(hrs/24);
   sec = string(sec % 60);
   if (sec.length < 2){
      sec = "0" + sec;
   }
   min = string(min % 60);
   if (min.length < 2){
      min = "0" + min;
   }
   hrs = string(hrs % 24);
   if (hrs.length < 2){
      hrs = "0" + hrs;
   }
   days = string(days);
   
   var counter:String = days + ":" + hrs + ":" + min + ":" + sec;
   timer_txt.text = counter;

}

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