Having trouble with shiny orbs tutorial [renamed]

Hello all,

I’ve not long been playing with Flash, and have started trying out the shiny orbs tutorial (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/shinyorbs.htm) and I can only get so far.

I do all the radial, alpha business, but when I put one of the circles over another, it just covers it; despite it being on alpha 0.

This is the angriest I’ve ever gotten and am about to storm out of the house in rage…

Any help would be ever so much appreciated. :frowning: