External movie Self-destruct button for Flash 8

[philipPryce]

do you really have to destroy it? try making invisible.
name._visible = false;

[Thankful]

Well that way I could also just point to the last empty frame in my external movie, but that's not good. It is always good to close externally loaded movies when you doon't need them any more, so they won't "suck" additional system resources (processor's time)...

[Thankful]

I just replaced

unloadMovie(EXTERNclip);

with this:

unloadMovie(this);

And it works like a charm... anyone knows why Flash 8 handles this function this way ? Sure I am happy it works, but I would really like to hear on why is it doing things like this...

Thanks!