Buttons Flicker When I Run Flash Catalyst

Hi,
I'm new to this and have been following the Doug Winnie introduction to Flash Catalyst videos. Up to this point, everything was working fine, but when I run the state at the end of the fourth video, my buttons flash uncontrollably when I drag my cursor over them. I have made sure that I've updated all patches and am running OSX 10.6.6 on a 2.8GHz MacBookPro with 8 GB Ram. The problem occurs in Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
John

I actually would look at the OVER state of the button. You may not have any graphics in that state, or your graphic's visibility might be off.
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