Death of ActionScript

[TheConeHead]

I have actionscript that is dying and I can not figure for the life why... I am have:

enter.onRelease = function() {
gotoAndPlay(5);
}
stop();

on frame 1 and it works fine....

later I do:

bPublic.onRelease = function() {
trace("here");
pix.gotoAndPlay(5);
}
stop();

And I can not even get the figure cursor to show up to show it is not even acknowledging it as a button... any reason why that would happen? Everything is named properly...

 

[TheConeHead]

It's weird... I am doing some alpha-ing with the mc before apply the AS... if I put the mc in its on layer - sperate from the same MC that is alpha-ing - then it works... very weird...