[AS2] - Alpha tween on a text field

Hey guys. I have run into this problem multiple times and never been able to find an answer, but this time rather than doing a work around, I wanted to try once-and-for-all to see if anyone has an answer.

With actionscript I’m creating a new movieclip, then having that movieclip create a text field. I’m populating this text field with content pulled from an XML file, and also controlling its color, size, ect. with the same XLM document.

I’m trying to set its alpha to 0, then have Tweener tween it in to 100, but have never been successful.

Has anyone run into this and found a way to do it?

I have also looked into TweenLite, and TweenMax as other options, but nothing seems to be able to do it…

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!