Why does this create more than one custom class?

programming flash
1

I will try to summarize this as much as possible, based on what I believe I have isolated as the reason for this behavior.

I have a solitaire game. The main class, Solitaire, calls an instance of Console, which manages buttons and a timer. The way I originally had it coded, I actually ended up with TWO consoles. That looked like this (with much snipping):

package {    
     public class Solitaire extends Sprite {
          private var console:Console;
          public function Solitaire():void {
                    addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
          }
          private function init(e:Event):void {
                    console = new Console();
                    addChild(console);
                    ...
                    // do stuff with stage
          }
    }
}

package {
    public class Console extends Sprite {
        public function Console():void {
            trace("Console");
            addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
        }
        private function init(e:Event) {
            // do stuff with stage
        }
    }
}

So this:

var solitaire:Solitaire = new Solitiare();
addChild(solitaire);

…results in this trace:

Console
Console

Certainly I don’t want two instances of Console. Not knowing what caused this, I experimented with removing the ADDED_TO_STAGE event listener in Console. The result is in fact only one instance of Console, which is good, EXCEPT that now I don’t have access to the stage within Console, and I need to pass stage-related values to it from Solitaire.

I assume there is a better approach. So my questions are two:[LIST=1]
[]Why does the ADDED_TO_STAGE event listener on Console result in two instances of it being instantiated?
[]Is there a better way of avoiding duplicating Console without getting rid of the ADDED_TO_STAGE listener on Console? Since I need access to the stage.
[/LIST]Thank you!