getURL problem

Howdy Folks:

I’ve got a movie clip that loads in a container clip. This movie has a button with the following code:

on (release) {
	getURL("http://www.novell.com","_blank");
}

Simple enough, right? Works great when I Ctrl-Enter to test, but as soon as I open it in a browser (tried Opera and IE) nothing happens when I click the button. Tried disabling popup blockers, etc, with no luck.

If the button is in a sub movie clip and not in the main movie do I need to use different syntax?

Thanks!