Drag and Drop exercise

Hi. I am a language teacher and completely new to Flash. I
have designed a drag and drop exercise with textboxes that I
converted into movie clips.
One set of textboxes are empty and are the 'target'
textboxes.
The other set of textboxes are exactly the same size but have
writing in them. I have attached the following action script to the
moveable textboxes:
While I have succeeded in making the textboxes move, they
will not drop into the 'target' textboxes and stay there. Any idea,
why?

Hello kglad. Before I started this drag and drop exercise
using textboxes, I followed a tutorial which I found on another
flash website. I was taught how to design a drag and drop game for
which I drew 4 different shapes. Then, I copied those 4 shapes and
put them onto another layer. One set of shapes was to be the target
shapes, the other ones were draggable. I used the code you can see
below. This game worked fine - when I dragged the shapes over the
correct targets, they stayed there. I then tried to replicate the
same idea (using the same basic code but changing the instance
names) but instead of drawing shapes, I used textboxes.
Unfortunately, I still can't get this to work. Is there a
fundamental difference between shapes and textboxes?

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ok, im not new to any of this really. Im simply stuck and
cant figure out why my drop targets arent working. my variables are
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stopDrag();
target_ = _root["t_"+ a_num];
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