Help with linking a button?

Ok, so I'm making a small little choose your own adventure
type game in flash, just using buttons to navigate between the
screens, fairly simple. I have the first frame with two buttons,
one links to start, the other links to info. the second button
works fine. when i launch the start button, it takes me to a movie
clip on the third frame. this clip plays till it gets to frame 75,
where i have actionscript follows.
getout.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, getoutclick);
function getoutclick(e:Event):void {
gotoAndPlay("home");
getout is a labeled instance of a button in the library,
which I want to take me to the next frame, but for the moment I
just want it to replay so I know that it works, which is why it's
linked to "home" now.
Every time frame 75 loads, i get the following error.
TypeError: Error #1006: addEventListener is not a function.
at Symbol1/::frame75()
I used the same method to link buttons on the first frame,
and now it isn't working on this one. Any ideas?

check Symbol1 for a stray line of code.

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bit...."
>
> Thanks for your reply to my question. In answering your
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> made above. You can easily tell that I am trying to get
my hands around
> using
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through the pages
> and
> the one way I thought I could get around that was to use
different
> template
> files. At the end of the day, I got myself into more
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> heartaches -
> all my links just disappeared on me. I am self-taught
with a painfully
> learning
> experience. I believe there should be a better and
easier way. I honestly
> do
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>
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"unison123" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi there,
>
> I designed my site with Sitegrinder (Medialab) ?
Currently all the title
> tags
> generated for buttons are the same as the actual html
page name.
>
> The problem with this is that the tooltip which appears
in browsers when
> you
> hover over the button with the mouse gives you the page
name. Instead I
> want to
> use these tooltips to give the user an indication of
what the function of
> the
> button is.
>
> An example: A zoom button above an image: Currenty the
tootlip says ?zoom
> imagename pagename? ? Instead it should say ?click here
to zoom?.
>
> I need help to get the Dreamweaver Find and Replace tool
to batch replace
> these tags for me for about a 100 pages.
>
> Here is an example of the code:
>
> <body>
> <div id="id1zoomimpastooilweddingbutton"><a
> href="zoomimpastooilwedding.html"
> title="zoomimpastooilwedding"></a></div>
>
> I only want to replace the text in the title tag - Since
the text ?zoom?
> appears several times in the body, I can?t get the Find
tool to pick up
> and
> Replace the occurrence of ?zoom? in the title only??.
>
> Options I?ve tried:
>
> Search Current document: Search for: ?specific tag?:
?title?,
> ?containing?:
> ?text? = zoom (I?ve tried this with
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> with
> no results
>
> I?ve also tried: Search for: ?specific tag?: ?body?,
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> tag? ?title? ?containing?: ?text? = zoom etc?????..
>
> I need help with what parameters to enter in order to
find and replace all
> the
> text within the title tag with my own text
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Anton
>
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