The tutorial works fine in MX, but I missed one tiny little detail that screws it up for Flash 7 - I didnt keep consistency with letter casing. There was one part where I put mainMenu instead of mainmenu :x
so here the new source file zip - just swap it out with the old one, and if you could do a simple search and replace on pages
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/xml_dropdown_menu5.htm
and
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/xml_dropdown_menu7.htm
to change mainMenu into mainmenu, that will fix the prob Kirupa. Thanks again! :pleased: