Flash CS3 - Odd button problem

Hello, Ive upgraded to Flash CS3 and I'm having a problem
with buttons.
When I open up my site, the old buttons work fine to navigate
the site and open up URL links. I have the actions on their own
layer instead of having an onRelease on each button.
However, when I create new buttons, they don't work.
I've even tried copying the existing working buttons,
applying the exact same actionscript to figure out what's going on,
but that also doesn't work, those buttons won't open up the URLs.
Am I perhaps using the wrong publish settings/flash player
choice?
Thanks

The answer is "skins" just search under "Creating skins for
some instances" in the Flash CS3 help file.

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So today I've downloaded the test version (30 days) in
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works and has to be closed.
So that's not because of my computer. It's a more general
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Do you know how to repair this kind of problem? I'm very
desperate and I really need to use flash. I don't know what to do.
Thank you very much

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sczulu
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больше не
буду
пользоваться
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> not
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>
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>

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Thanks; thats helpful.
What's going on is that the filter is being reused for your
text instances.
Flash does automatic associations between frames to see where
some objects
should be instances of or related to the objects in the frame
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text field in the
same depth (one spot above the jump in button), and since
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same drop shadow filter with the same settings, Flash will
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those depths
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the bounding box
for the first text+filter combination being used for all
others. You can
see this more clearly if you move the "Love" text to be at
the beginning of
the sequence and then test your movie.
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may work in your
situation):
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either
adjusting the strength by a value of 1, changing the quality,
or something
not visible but enough to make Flash recognize it as a
different filter
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should force every other text field to be at a higher depth
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it.
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static in its
application of the filter). You may need to be sure to embed
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doing what it thinks is best, its not working out very well
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>link to download the FLA.
>
>
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First of all, thx for the answer.
The publish location is fine; it publishes to the same place,
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> Hi,
>
> Is there a straight-forward way to scale Flex Components
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There is nothing stopping you from producing files in the old
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