Button Help?

hi, i have just started learning flash, and i have a problem with a button action :frowning:

i want the scene to play the flash movie i created when i press the Play button. i have set up the button and everything, and mad the movie stop in an actions layer, and i tried to get it to play on release, this is what i have…

on(release) {
play();
}

and it says i have 1 error, its this…

Error Scene=Scene 1, layer=play button, frame=3:Line 1: Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
on(release) {
Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1

can anyone help?

thanks alot

dave