ActionScript inside Movieclip is SOMETIMES ignored

Hi,
I am working on something similar to a slideshow where
buttons are used to move forward and backward in the time line.
On one of these "slides" there is another button, a MovieClip
with a few frames inside (i.e. the rollover and mousedown states
etc.) and ActionScript in Frame 1 that make the button work
(rollovers and the like).
If I play forward in this slideshow, everything works.
If I play backwards to the frame that has this button, then
all ActionScript inside this button is completely ignored
(including trace), and the button will endlessly cycle through the
frames inside (even though I tried various STOP commands from
inside and outside the movieclip).
The interesting thing is that I have a very similar slideshow
with a similar button that does NOT have this issue. If I
copy/paste the working button to replace the bad one, the same
thing happens to this button, so it somehow is local to this one
file.
There are no error messages coming up, and I don't even know
if there IS any code that would disable script inside a movieclip.
I checked the code inside the MovieClip and found nothing
wrong - it only has the stop command, a few addevenlisteners and
their corresponding functions in frame 1.
I just don't get why it works in one file but not in this one
- the best part is that whenever I create a new slideshow, I simply
create a copy of the last slideshow file, so the basics of all
these files should be identical...
Another thing that completely throws me for a loop is that
when I add any random shape (e.g. a square) into the frame that has
the BACK button that brings me to the broken button, then it works!
So I have a workaround, but I would really like to know what
causes this - I'd prefer a fix to a workaround that might break
some day, too.
Any idea what could possibly cause something like this and
what I can do about this?
Thanks!

you probably have a corrupt swf.
to test, copy all the assets to new swf and see if the problem persists.

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