Hyperlinking from a flash movie object

Ok, I am teh uber-noob when it comes to Flash. For the last
few weeks I have been gathering up .fla files and reverse
engineering things to see how they tick. I am not normally a
web/flash guy, so this has been interesting me for some time. I
have a project I am working on where I have an animated button
which opens up to reveal a logo. I would like to be able to click
on that logo and go to a page. Then when the mouse goes off of the
button it closes back up and the logo disappears. I seem to have
the majority of this done. I can mouseover the button and it opens
up, revealing the logo, then mouseoff and it closes. Everything
works except for the link on the logo. This appears to have stumped
me (it doesn't take much at this point, believe me)
Now, before you say anything, I have tried turning things
into buttons in the movie where the button opens, and I assume that
doesn't work because the movie is being called in another movie. I
can get the button to work if I slap it into the base project and
not in one of the open/close movies. I will be glad to email the
project to you if you are interested in looking at it.
-DF

hi there - posting some of the code you are using would be
helpful for debugging - just for future reference - also what
version of ActionScript you are using as well AS2 and AS3 are very
different in several regards. but basically what you need here is
to add another mouse handler for the 'click' event - how you do so
depends on the version of code you are working in. but all that
said, the basic method in AS2 is getURL() and in AS3 is
navigateToURL() - something like the following for both:

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