Input text box inside clips can't recieve focus

I’ve got a menu system in which the buttons(movieclips) move around (using the tween class) and resize to become the actual site pages/areas.

This works great. I’m using an external .as file to control most of the movement.

The problem lies in a conflict between the clip’s mouse events (onRelease)
and being able to access input text boxes inside a clip inside that clip.

In other words you can’t click in the input text boxes because the onRelease for the ._parent._parent clip is always being triggered.

I have a var I can check to see if the clip has opened (okay to access dynamic text boxes and no need for main mouse events) but that doesn’t seem to kill the .onRelease function for the clip.

clipA.onRelease=function(){
 //the variable below traces "true" when the menu item clip has expanded
	trace(this.isOpen+": check on open var");
	if(this.isOpen==true){
		stop();
//tried this to see if I could get focus on the first text box
		clipA.contact.quickContact.nameText.setFocus;
	}else{
	trace(_root.motionFinished);
	if(_root.motionFinished==true){
	_root.expandClip=97;
	nclip1=clipB;
	nclip2=clipC;
	nclip3=clipD;
	nclip4=clipE;	
	
	if(selClip!=clipA){
		if(_root.windowOpen==true){
			_root.nextSelClip=clipA;
			
				
				
			
			selClip.gotoAndPlay("contract");
			slaves.moveBack(nclip1);
			slaves.moveBack(nclip2);
			slaves.moveBack(nclip3);
			slaves.moveBack(nclip4);
			slaves.moveBack(nextSelClip);
			
			
		}else{
			
		
	_root.nextSelClip=clipA;
	_root.selClipSide=clipA._x;
	
	selClip=clipA;
	
	selInPos=1;
	pos3=clipA;
	trace(selClip);
	firstTween();
}
}
}
}
}

my head hurts.