Removing listeners doesn't seem to work

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hi all,

I have a mouse and stage listener that watches for stage.onResize and Mouse.onMouseDown

they work just fine, however i can’t seem to remove them when i don’t want to use them, they are triggering even though i’ve tried to remove them. Any thoughts on what is wrong with the following code?

 private function setEnvironmentListeners(kill){
  if(kill){
   Stage.removeListener($objStage);
   delete $objStage;
   $objStage = undefined;
 
   Mouse.removeListener($objMouse);
 
   delete $objMouse;
   $objMouse = undefined;
  } else {
   /*
   *   Watch for mouse clicks, we will check to see if the user has clicked outside the movieclip,
   *   if so, then we want the menu to close.
   */
   $objMouse = new Object()
   $objMouse._name = "listener";
   $objMouse._parent = this;
   $objMouse.onMouseDown = function(){_parent.dispatchGenEvent({type:"__onMouseDown",_typeof:"MOUSE"});}
   Mouse.addListener($objMouse);
 
   /*
   *  watch for resizing of the stage
   */
   $objStage = new Object();
   $objStage._name = "listener";
   $objStage._parent = this;
   $objStage.onResize = function(){_parent.dispatchGenEvent({type:"__onResize",_typeof:"STAGE"});}
   Stage.addListener($objStage);
  }
  // display the listeners to see if they are still there.
  trace($objMouse);
  trace($objStage);
 }