Thanx for that... It was more or less what I thought...

Found a good tutorial here as well:
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic.php?id=293660

The problem was, which resulted in me thinking I didn't get the whole concept, was that I was doing a hittest between a parent and child mc... It's getting late here! 4.47am... need to go to bed... it'll come to me tomorrow!

Thanx again, and happy holidays!

Cheers