Photos in a movieclip appearing as flat blocks of color?

Hi all,

I’m not sure how to describe this odd bug but it’s easy enough to ask here… As the title states, I have a movieclip with several animations inside it. One of them is an animated mask over a photo.

Here’s where it gets weird: When I drag an instance of the photo to the stage, it shows up upside down. Then when I run the swf, without masking the photo, the whole photo shows up as an orange rectangle. I’ve tried dragging an instance of the photo to the main stage, outside of the movieclip, and it looks fine in the swf.

Is Flash bugging out here? Has anyone experienced this?

thanks!