Actionscript 3 has abandoned me!!!

I am fast losing patience with AS3....i thought it would help me until this point.
I have a button which works when you first click it (to go to the next section). But if you wish to view the tech specs or copyright page and then go back and try and enter the resource....surprise the button does not work.
Here is the code:
entrance_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, enterMe);
function enterMe(e:MouseEvent):void {
trace("yo've clicked me");
//MovieClip(this.root).nextFrame();
right now i have commented out the actual action and just ran a trace for testing. But clicking on the button is supposed to advance the root timeline by one frame, quite simple. All other buttons with similar coding work in the FLA except this one. I keep getting this error when i am testing:
Similar thing happens when i placed another navigation button onto the movie....AS3 just seems to have shut me out all of a sudden. Seriously making me lose faith and I really feel like resorting back to AS2 and re-coding this whole resource!
Does anyone have any clues as to what could be going on??? Is there some unspoken ettiquette about how to apply functions to buttons in AS3 that i am not aware of?
Thank you,

what i don't get is when i go back to the frame with the button on it...wouldn't it be safe to assume the button regenerates its own instance again? Or maybe there is some etiquette i am not aware of within AS3? I haven't had this issue before with the movie...and suddenly now i do.
The enter button sits on the first page of the overlaying movie clip. There are two links to other areas of the timeline which display tech specs and copyright info. Once you get to these sections of the timeline, there is a back button which brings you back to the first screen with the enter button. Please see the screenshot below for a visual explanation. (click to enlarge)
As you can see within the function that is supposed to work, it tells the root or stage timeline to advance by one frame (commented out at the moment) which makes the welcome screen disappear as it is contained within a movie clip on that particular single keyframe...advancing it by one gets it off the stage and into the main movie which appears beneath it.
Now the enter button actually works the first time you press it (without going to the other linked sections)...but you come back from a section and the button appears disabled and i get some error information about the object not existing when it clearly does.
Have no idea what is going on and it would be great if the solution was a simple one. Thanks for your patience people. I just have not been able to find any real good solid support for AS3 out there yet and all of my colleagues appear to arrogant, busy or scared to go near it. Sometimes it really sucks to be a forerunner.

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"LoggedOnUser"="domain\username"
Any suggestions on what I need to change in my code to manipulate the registry to match those values without having to manually input them?

- Vegan Fanatic
"can you fix the cyt.exe program, that would be the best option long term"
Well the cyt.exe program hasn't been updated since 2000 (version 2.3 and 2.5 were the latest versions) so I can only assume the developer has abandoned the project. The reason why it doesn't work anymore is because of the registry change going from XP to
Vista/Win7/Win8.
Once I have my own batch file, it will be easier to tweak it as needed when an operating system changes then it is to rely/wait on someone else to update a very specific piece of software that only has one small purpose that has most likely been forgotten.
As much as I would like to modify the existing program, I don't have any software I can use to re-program it and I doubt I have enough knowledge or experience to tweak it correctly.
- Frederik Long
"You need to experiment either with reg query / reg add or reg export / reg import. Each of these commands has inbuilt help, e.g. reg import /?."
From what I tested, the export/import copies the file and its values and placed them where I asked it too. That is not what I need. I need the values ONLY and placed within the file I need which has a different name from the file I exported from.

Actionscript 3 has abandoned me!!!

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