onLoad vs. onClipEvent(load) -> mystic error (atleast to me 8o) )

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Hello.

I have a movieclip with instance name linkholder, on the root of the movie. In this, I had this code so that the movieclip worked as a infinit menu:

onClipEvent(load) {
	var xcenter = _root.mask._x+_root.mask._width/2;
	var speed = 2/10;
	var begX = _root.mask._x;
}

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
		var endX = _root.mask._x+(_root.mask._width - 150);
		//scroll starts from 0 at every gallery
		this._x = begX;
	}
	
	if (_root.mask.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
		var distance = _root._xmouse-xcenter;
		this._x -= (distance*speed);
		if (this._x>=begX) {
			this._x = begX;
		}
		if (this._x<=endX) {
			this._x = endX;
		}
	} else {
	}
}

This infinite menu worked, though I want the code outside the MC, so I put this code on a layer outside linkholder:

_root.linkholder.onLoad = function(){
	var xcenter = _root.mask._x+_root.mask._width/2;
	var speed = 2/10;
	var begX = _root.mask._x;
}

_root.linkholder.onEnterFrame = function(){
	var endX = _root.mask._x+(_root.mask._width -  150);
	//scroller starts from 0 at every gallery
	_root.linkholder._x = begX;

	if (_root.mask.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
		var distance = _root._xmouse-xcenter;
		_root.linkholder._x -= (distance*speed);
		if (_root.linkholder._x>=begX) {
			_root.linkholder._x = begX;
		}
		if (_root.linkholder._x<=endX) {
			_root.linkholder._x = endX;
		}
	} else {
 }
}

Then the infinite menu stoped scrolling. the onEnterFrame function still runs correctly (checked with a trace wich was printed all the time). I guessed that there was something wrong with using this in the latter code, so I changed all this to _root.linkholder, but that didn’t help neither. can u help me?

regards, henxon