animated movie symbol script not responding correctly

[carlstowne]

I am having a problem with Flash MX that I didn't have with 5.0 When I script the last frame of an animated symbol to go back to a "scene" and play a certain frame, it keeps wanting to go back to it's own timeline and play that frame. When I turn on buttons and frame actions it responds correctly, but not when I publish and play the projector? Any ideas

[oldnewbie]

From movie clips (and that was the same in Flash 5!), scene names are useless, and you must add _root or _level0 (from movies loaded on other levels), to your path.

Thus label the frame you're targeting with an unique label such as unique or whatever, and target that labeled frame:

_root.gotoAndPlay("unique");

[carlstowne]

Thanks old newbie, I will try that tomorrow at work. I am not doing movie levels, I am talking about moving around in the same project file. But let me see if that works.
Thanks!