one again thanks for your reply, I had a bit of searching on sound object in flash myself, result: because flash exports sounds to the first frame this can mess up your action script if you have any on the first frame ( I had loads in my case!!) I don't know why it does it but it does anyway, lesson to be learnt: keep your other action script somewhere else!! I'll take you advice as well for future and thanks for the tutorial.

Cheers