Controlling embedded Movieclips through as3

Hi everyone!
I'm starting to learn actionscript 3 programming and am in the process of trying to create a simple game but am having trouble getting flash to call up various movieclip states.I have a movieclip called "Player" and inside that movieclip, I have Player_Stand,Player_Hit, and Player_Walk...
While I can get the master movieclip to move, I can't get it to play the embedded movieclips when I change states. I tried a more advanced method that did work where you stick all of the animations in one movieclip and then manually tell flash to advance each frame using gotoAndStop in a loop, but it would be easier to just have seperate movieclips that I could just call from a master movieclip file. I've tried various methods to solve this including having all of the movieclips on screen and then changing their visibility but that didn't work either. I'm sure it's something extremely simple that I'm overlooking and if you can point it out to me, I'd be very grateful!
Here's the code, and I'm attaching the fla if anyone wants to look at it. I'm foregoing OOP and classes for the sake of simplicity at the beginning.
http://www.filesonic.com/file/2609121934/FightingGame.zip
package
          import flash.display.MovieClip;
          import flash.events.Event;
          import flash.ui.Keyboard;
          import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;
          public class Main extends MovieClip
                    public var player:Player;
                    public var rightIsDown:Boolean = false;
                    public var leftIsDown:Boolean = false;
                    public var upIsDown:Boolean = false;
                    public var downIsDown:Boolean = false;
                    public var dHitIsDown:Boolean = false;
                    public var wJumpIsDown:Boolean = false;
                    public var playerSpeed:Number = 2.5;
                    public function Main()
                              init();
                              addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,GameLoop);
                    private function GameLoop(event:Event)
                              controlPlayer();
                    private function init()
                              player=new Player();
                              addChild(player);
                              player.x = stage.stageWidth / 2 - 150;
                              player.y = stage.stageHeight / 2 + 150;
                              stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN,keyPressed,false, 0, true);
                              stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP,keyReleased,false, 0, true);
                    private function controlPlayer():void
                              if (leftIsDown)
                                        player.x -= playerSpeed;
                                        player.scaleX=-1;
                                        player.gotoAndPlay(20);
                              if (rightIsDown)
                                        player.x+=playerSpeed;
                                        player.scaleX=1;
                                        player.gotoAndPlay(20);
                              if (upIsDown)
                                        player.y-=playerSpeed;
                                        player.gotoAndStop(20);
                              if (downIsDown)
                                        player.y+=playerSpeed;
                                        player.gotoAndStop(20);
                              if (! leftIsDown||! rightIsDown||! upIsDown||downIsDown)
                                        player.gotoAndStop(1);
                    function keyPressed(keyEvent:KeyboardEvent)
                              if (keyEvent.keyCode==Keyboard.RIGHT)
                                        rightIsDown=true;
                              if (keyEvent.keyCode==Keyboard.LEFT)
                                        leftIsDown=true;
                              if (keyEvent.keyCode==Keyboard.UP)
                                        upIsDown=true;
                              if (keyEvent.keyCode==Keyboard.DOWN)
                                        downIsDown=true;
                              if (keyEvent.keyCode==68)
                                        dHitIsDown=true;
                    private function keyReleased(keyEvent:KeyboardEvent)
                              if (keyEvent.keyCode==Keyboard.RIGHT)
                                        rightIsDown=false;
                              if (keyEvent.keyCode==Keyboard.LEFT)
                                        leftIsDown=false;
                              if (keyEvent.keyCode==Keyboard.UP)
                                        upIsDown=false;
                              if (keyEvent.keyCode==Keyboard.DOWN)
                                        downIsDown=false;
                              if (keyEvent.keyCode==68)
                                        dHitIsDown=false;

Here's just one observation of a situation that you probably don't intend. If any one of the keys is not being pressed, you will be in frame 1. Your only hope of getting to frame 20 is to hold down all the buttons at the same time.
if (! leftIsDown||! rightIsDown||! upIsDown||downIsDown)
player.gotoAndStop(1);

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// the line below is the problematic line
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better.....
These questions are based on the AS3 Cookbook recipe 9.17
(Embedding Fonts)...
According to the cookbook, embedding fonts in AS3 requires
using the [Embed] metatag "inside an AS file outside the class
declaration". I can't figure out (based on the cookbook), what I'm
doing wrong... I've attached my entire class so go ahead and see
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SymTsb,
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posting your code? I'm having similar problems and have been
searching for a solution for days now. I tried copying the code
above and applying KGlad's suggestion, but it still doesn't work.
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selected linkage. I checked off "Export for AS"and "Export in first
frame". In the class field I put "_arialBold". The base class was
"flash.text.Font". In the class you created, I replaced every
instance of the word "Vivacious" with "_arialBold". I added KGlads
code one line after you defined the TextFormat.
In my fla, I imported your class and then created a new
instance of your class. I ran the file... blank screen...
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V

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Can i call in App_Code/Data folder files through as3 ? (from Hosting server)
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