Scaling onstage MovieClip w/ "scaleX" breaks timeline animation ...really?

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Is it possible to scale a clip via AS and still have it animate within its container timeline?
Does applying an AS property to an onstage instance somehow dissassociate it from other timeline properties?

That's the only solution I could find. And it worked. Thanks!
Any idea what is the relationship between onstage instances and adjusting their properties in AS? I've run into this kind of issue with TextFields before, too. As soon as properties are changed w/ ActionScript, some aspects break, thus forcing a kind of all-or-nothing approach to applying ActionScript to onstage instances.

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