Flash bug with form fields? Help!

[Ahhhk]

Hi!

I have a large project that includes 4 primary MCs in Flash 8.

All of the MCs have form fields but when I get to the 4th MC at runtime the TextInput and TextArea appear to show up blank and when you type in them nothing appears to happen.

The odd thing is that the text data is there - either the default text or whatever was blindly typed in - because when submitted, the .text values do contain the text. This is exactly how it would act if a style was applied as ("color", 0xFFFFFF)

I do not apply any styles to any of the default components at any point on any of the MCs. And even setting the TextInput's instance style to ("color", 0x000000) doesn't make the text show up.

If I run JUST the MC (Test Scene) it works fine.

If I close Flash and reopen it then test the whole movie it works fine ONLY the first time I test it. Any subsequent runs result the the blank looking field.

Help!!

Ahhhk!

[Ahhhk]

Ok, I narrowed it down some more....

Going directly to the 4th MC from any MC other than the 3rd and the fields work fine. It's going from the 3rd to the 4th that trashes the field on the 4th.

Removing ALL the AS from the 3rd doesnt fix anything.

Removing all the ComboBoxes from the 3rd DOES fix it!!

The 1st and 2nd MCs also have combo boxes - so it's not a global ComboBox issue.

The 3rd MC has 4 ComboBoxes, 1 TextInput and a color picker.

I tried removing every combination of field components and the only thing that resolves it is removing all 4 of the ComboBoxes from the 3rd MC.

Oh, and each MC is on a separate frame in the root timeline, btw. And all the components are the standard Flash User Interface components.

Any ideas? :0

[Ahhhk]

Anyone have any theories??

[Ahhhk]

Nobody has every run into this problem??