I'm building a game program and I've got a script that loads an external swf, and then duplicates the clip for the user to play. It worked until a few days ago when I reinstalled my OS (Mac OS 10.4.11) to fix an unrelated problem. The strange thing is that I had reinstalled the browser plugin to fix a related problem. Now the code works in the browser, but crashes the IDE and the Flash Player every time. I called Adobe Support but they were no help...

I have a function on the main timeline of a movie:

function somefunction (whichObject) {
some action;
}

My program loads a child swf. In that child swf, I have code to call the function in the parent:

parent.somefunc tion (someObject);

but AS3 gives me the error:

ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property somefunction not found on flash.display.S tage and there is...