Mask not working in published swf

I have 2 animated masks. On the stage in flash they work fine
when I run the animation, but when I publish the movie, the second
mask doesn't do anything!
when I turn the mask layer back into a regular layer it works
fine when published and the movieclip animates fine. The movie clip
does indeed run all the way through, it loops back and I put a
trace half way through the broken mask's timeline. I have no
actionscript anywhere on the timeline.
here is the fla, the problem is occuring in the movie clip
'1'
www.raymondselzer.net/forrests.fla

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Update 8-2-10: In play mode the text was still visible when it shouldn't be but once I tested the movie the mask worked correctly with the text. So problem solved
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Thanks for all who viewed this. I finally figured out why it wasn't working. I had the mask layer locked. But now the circle is moving across the text but the text is viewable when it shouldn't be until the circle moves across it. How come it's doing this?
ashmic19
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