Closing a swf

Question

I have a swf which is run as a child of another swf.  The child swf has a return button which runs this.parent.parent.removeChild(this.parent); to remove the child swf.  By it's self it runs fine removing the child and leaving the parent.  I want the child swf to fade out before being removed so when I click the return button it runs a function to fade and when the alpha is sufficiently low it runs the function to remove the child swf, close the stream, and event handlers.  The problem is that whenever I run the fade function after the fade I get error messaged  like this:
TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
    at moviesNoComponent_fla:MainTimeline/closeVideo/moviesNoComponent_fla:end()[moviesNoCompone nt_fla.MainTimeline::frame1:145]
    at moviesNoComponent_fla:MainTimeline/closeVideo/moviesNoComponent_fla:fade()[moviesNoCompon ent_fla.MainTimeline::frame1:140]
ArgumentError: Error #2025: The supplied DisplayObject must be a child of the caller.
    at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/removeChild()
    at moviesNoComponent_fla:MainTimeline/closeVideo/moviesNoComponent_fla:end()[moviesNoCompone nt_fla.MainTimeline::frame1:144]
I think I'm out of scope or something.
As is I can make the child swf fade or I can close it out but I can't do both
the relevent code:
return_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, closeVideo);
function closeVideo(e:MouseEvent):void {
    addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, fade);
    function fade(e:Event):void {
        alpha -= .015;
        if (alpha < .01) {
            end();         }
    function end():void {
        stream.close();
        vidContainer.removeChild(vid);
        this.parent.parent.removeChild(this.parent);
        return_btn.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, closeVideo);
        removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, fade);
        meCombo.removeEventListener(Event.CHANGE, movieSelected);
        vidContainer.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, playMovie);
        vidContainer.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, pauseMovie);
        vidContainer.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, resizeMovie);

Answer 1

you can't nest named functions.  you can nest an anonymous function but there's no need in your code for that:
return_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, closeVideo);
function closeVideo(e:MouseEvent):void {
    addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, fade);
function fade(e:Event):void {
        alpha -= .015;
        if (alpha < .01) {
            end();         }
function end():void {
        stream.close();
        vidContainer.removeChild(vid);
        this.parent.parent.removeChild(this.parent);
        return_btn.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, closeVideo);
        removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, fade);
        meCombo.removeEventListener(Event.CHANGE, movieSelected);
        vidContainer.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, playMovie);
        vidContainer.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, pauseMovie);
        vidContainer.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, resizeMovie)