i got the one movie to work (thanks to this information), there are 2 versions of the scrolling text i was working on. the one that works is a single click = +/- 1 line of scrolling text. the one that doesnt work uses a movie clip so that you can hold the button down and it will keep scrolling. ive checked almost everything in the mc as well as the buttons.

question though, if i refer to a mc as "clip1" is it the same as "../clip1" (since thats how it works with www addys)? also the same regarding variable names with ":variable1" vs "../:variable1". i couldnt get it to work with variables, so i basically have that part answered, but what about mc instances?