Blur Button in AS2

Hi- I'm stressing, I found an awesome tutorial to create a blur button but I can't figure out how to make it go to and play consistantly. Can anyone help? Here is the link. A sample code would be ideal. Thanks in advance.
http://flashexplained.com/actionscript/applying-the-blur-filter-to-buttons-via-a ctionscript/

import flash.filter.BlurFilter;
var tl:MovieClip=this;
var blurF:BlurFilter=new BlurFilter(20,20,3);
yourButton.filters=[blurF];
yourButton.onRollOver=function(){
this.filters=null;
yourButton.onRollOut=function(){
this.filters=[blurF];
yourButton.onRelease=function(){
tl.gotoAndPlay("whatever");

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