Flash 8 video controls + other madness

I'm really having a hard time with this :
I have a _level0 swf. it loads somemovie.swf into level 1.
somemovie.swf imports a class i've written.
The class I've written works great with flash 7 video, but
when flash 8 video it acts up like this:
In my class, I have a few functions that draw rectangles,
write text, etc.. When there are skinned controls on the flash 8
video, none of that shows up. When the flash 8 video doesn't use
skinned controls, everything works fine.
Does anyone have ANY clue what this could be?

It’s hard to see what it is doing from the snippet of
code you shown. I am just curious on where it is you are initiating
this new class? It might be easy to assign it to the same level.
Also how are you loading this incoming SWF? I know in Flash 8
there are restrictions that are causing your problem. See the link
below;
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context= LiveDocs_Parts&file=00001739.html

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> I should be looking for?
>
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>
>

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