actionscript, so far I hate it!

Can anyone tell me why this isn't working? I'm learning actionscript and my first lesson isn't working. I made a movie clip with the instant name 'mcQuit'.

mcQuit.onPress = function():Void {
trace("Why isn't this working?")
};

In this case the lessons from Lynda.com are created from MX and I'm using 8, is there an actionscript conflict here?

I have a single frame movie with the movie clip instant one the one and only frame.

Works just fine for me here. Make sure you have your Publish Settings set to Actionscript 2 and you're doing Control>Test Movie to test the movie.

Can you upload the fla?

make sure the code is not attached to the movieclip itself... give your movieclip an instance name of mcQuit. The code should be in a frame on the same timeline as the movieclip (but not attached to the movieclip itself)