Movieclip triggered when not clicked on

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hello all, i’ve been using flash off and on for years now so i feel kinda dumb for asking about such a basic concept but…

i’ve built a flash player that has a play/stop button that is a movieClip with 4 frames in it. my problem is that the event handlers on the MC fire regardless of where i click. am i horribly losing my mind or shouldn’t you have to click the actual movieClip in order for it to fire?

the more i think about this i’m starting to remember having to actually put buttons in the MC to control this…does that sound right to anyone?

 
onClipEvent (EnterFrame) {
 _root.playxx.stop();
}
onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
 _root.playxx.gotoAndStop(_root.playxx._currentframe+1);
}
onClipEvent (mouseUp) {
 if (_root.playxx._currentframe == 2){
 _root.playxx.gotoAndStop(_root.playxx._currentframe+1);
} else {
 _root.playxx.gotoAndStop(1);
}
}

thanks!