Button inside movie clip problem

Hi everyone

This is my first post and I am starting with a request for a problem that I just can’t figure out.

I have a button with graphics defined for each of the states up, over, and down in it.

This button is inside a movie that resides on the main time line.

The main time line and the movie containing the button are both stopped

When i test the movie the 3 animation frames for the button just play through as if they were a movie being played (kind of a flickering effect)

Why is this? Why doesn’t the button behave like a button?

Please help cause this is driving me nuts and I have run out of ideas to explore as to why this might be happening.

Oh, if i put an instance of the button on the main time line, no problem.

Thanks
Paul