Component will not animate

Folks,

I have a text area component bound to an XMLconnector component. everything seems to be working fine as far as parsing the xml data.

Now, I created a MC on stage with the text area comp. included. The goal for this MC is to pop-up from the bottom of the screen on a button’s ‘onRelease’ action, then display the imported xml within the textarea component. This functions as a text script feature.

I’m using timeline animation (no scripting) to raise and lower the MC. For example: onRelease (of a button), script_mc.gotoAndPlay(“open”). This simply goes to the ‘open’ label and plays about 10 frames of timeline animation in which the component rises to display the text.

The problem is that everything inside the MC raises and lowers like it should except for the text area component. This does not move at all. But yet, if I scrub the MC back and forth in design mode, it works fine. Does not work when I run the movie or after it’s published.

Thoughts?

Thanks.