Need help with Buttons with ActionScript

I am trying to create a button that will go to a different
scene in my flash project using
on (press) { gotoAndPlay(about,1);
I have done this several times before, however, for some
reason every time I try to put actions on my buttons it says that
actions can't be applied to it. I have even tried switching them to
movie clips. I can't figure out what is wrong.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

Thanks for you help!!!! That worked!

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news:[email protected]...
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flash to pull any content from a datbase before. does any one
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