Manipulating Flash Library MovieClips in Actionscript

I drew up some graphic symbols in Illustrator and imported and defined them as MovieClips in the Flash library.
That way I could just place them where I want to visually on the stage. As I have been solidifying the visual design,
I have been implementing it in Actionscript to access the flexibility the code provides.
In order to port a symbol to actionscript I did the following:
Then in actionscript I tried the following:
Times2.visible = false;
The "show code hint" led me think I could do that.
But I get this error:
Scene 1, Layer 'Code', Frame 2, Line 37 1119: Access of possibly undefined property visible through a reference with static type Class.
What am I doing wrong here?
Thanks

I tried creating an instance of Times2 in Actionscript.
var myTimes:Times2 = new Times2();
myTimes.x = 125.0;
myTimes.y = 125.0;
but I get the following error:
TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert Times2@2b8ffb89 to fl.motion.AnimatorFactory.
at flash.display::Sprite/constructChildren()
at flash.display::Sprite()
at flash.display::MovieClip()
at Multiply_fla::MainTimeline()
I don't know why it wants to convert it to fl.motion.AnimatorFactory.
I checked on-line help and found many instances of frustrated users with error #1034, but they all had
different circumstances. I could not related them to my own situation.
Very befuddled,

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