Inconsistent bahavior just KILLING me. Any suggestions?

[renderhjs]

I had problems with AS2 and FlashMX2004+Flash8 as it cached the AS classes and it wouldn´t update it even after some restarts- sounds the same as what you have

[Alluvian]

If it was a cacheing issue, wouldn't that basically mean that my main script would be calling old versions of my classes?

If that would work how I would think it would work, then the 'rotate_right' script would still either call the 'this.gotoAndPlay("framename")' command correctly to set visual facing or it wouldn't. How would caching cause it to sometimes set the facing and other times leave the current one? All during the same testing of the swf? I can keep hitting my test button to call the turn_right method and watch as it usually works fine, but seemingly randomly fails to update visual facing. Odd that it always seems to update the actually _facing property.

Or am I misunderstanding what you are saying?

Is there maybe something wonky about gotoAndPlay? I remember last time I was coding in flash I was getting really mad that gotoAndStop would not actually STOP all of the time.