Getting an object to move back and forth

OK, at first this seemed like the easiest thing to do, but I've tried to make it work a number of different ways and nothing seems to work. I have a movie clip that I want to have constantly moving back and forth across the stage, basically "bounce" off the left and right sides. What's the best way to do this using AS2?

Nope, no AS, just a regular tween added between two keyframes. The tween is on the timeline of the movieclip, not on the main timeline. So, when the movie clip loads it automatically runs through it's own timeline. It gets bigger and bigger, then at the end of it's timeline the movieclip gets removed. The timeline seems to play properly because after a couple second the movie clip does get removed, it just doesn't get bigger. Why would having one movie clim move back and forth stop another movie clip from using it's tween?

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Attachments:
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