Hittest malfunction

Sorry to post guys, I’ve been searching the forum for about two days straight to no avail, so here I go.

I’ve got a moveable character, personaje, that when moved to a certain spot (hit_mc), will trigger a new scene.

The code I’ve got attatched to hit_mc is as follows

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {

if (_root.personaje.hitTest (this)) {
trace ("poop");
}
}

When I move the character over towards the mc, poop defintely appears on the output screen, and keeps appearing until I move the character off.

However when I try to add something as simple as

gotoAndPlay ("Scene 1", "Frame 1"); 

where the trace is, I get nothing. Any ideas would be more than helpful,

Thanks in advance, Matthew