Flash CS4 Won't let me use the bone tool

I just got Flash CS4 and am working through the Classroom in
A book. I'm somewhat new to Flash and this may be something I'm
doing, but I don't think so. I've followed the instructions pretty
closely. I'm doing the crane animation using the graphics they
provided and for some reason I keep getting an error that says
"Cannot link bitmap objects". The bone tool has an X over it when I
roll over the bitmap arms. I even tried creating some blocks to
link, but the bone tool would do the same thing. I'm in the right
layer and it is NOT locked. What gives??

I figured out my mistake. I was dragging bitmaps onto the
stage and not the movie clip symbols.

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