i may be wrong, but animations work for both stages for me (I'm too lazy to go through stage 1 so i just started preview from stage 2 and it seems to work). although, why don't you just use includes for the events and save yourself a whole lot of trouble?
edit: i was wrong <img src="smileys/smiley18.gif" border="0" align="middle" />
but the bug is on and off, sometimes the animation works, sometimes it doesnt. i think it may have to do with jumping...