Ok I guess it was a beginner?s mistake
It was my naming.
My instances naming of a movie clip was wrong.
I made a movie clip and gave it an instance name of blastmc
It should have been blast_mc with the underscore
So that flash would see it as a movie clip object
Thanks any way
Since upgrading to CS3. My code hints no longer work. They are checked in Preferences with a 0 sec delay, but none ever appear.
This is driving me crazy I see other post all over the web asking the same thing but no solution.
I even look on adobe site no solution is posted does anyone know the solution??? plz

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