My home button will not work after redoing project 3 times

Question

Using CS 5.5, I am using a single scene with buttons that all appear on the first frame along with code snippet based AS also on the first frame that when clicked, takes the user to a different frame. Everything seems to work fine, except, I have a button that when clicked on, is supposed to go back home to the first frame, though nothing happens when it is clicked on. Is there some conflicting code here?
Thanks for any help!
The following is my AS on the first frame:
stop();
Home_button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame);
function fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame(event:MouseEvent):void
    gotoAndStop(1);
Browse.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame_2);
function fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame_2(event:MouseEvent):void
    gotoAndStop(5);
Buy.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame_3);
function fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame_3(event:MouseEvent):void
    gotoAndStop(10);
Gallery.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame_4);
function fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame_4(event:MouseEvent):void
    gotoAndStop(15);
Help.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame_5);
function fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame_5(event:MouseEvent):void
    gotoAndStop(20);

Answer 1

Place you code on its own layer and make sure it extends the length of your timeline so that it is accessible anywhere along it.
For new instances of the buttons you should only need to add the event listener.
   Home_button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame);
but you can also have this button on its own layer and have it extend the length of where it is used so that you only need one instance of it.
The same event handler function can be shared as long as you have it on a layer that ius accessible for the length of the timeline.  To put a trace in the function, that's pretty much all you need to do...
   function fl_ClickToGoToAndStopAtFrame(event:MouseEvent):void
        trace("the button worked");
       gotoAndStop(1);
The trace() function is one of the key tools for troubleshooting code.  YOu can use it to see what the values of different properties/variables are at any time to help track down where something is going wrong (or even going right).  For the case just shown, all it is doing is letting you know if clicking the button actually resulted in the event handler function being executed.  If it does not trace the output indicated, you will know that the button is not connected to an event listener that is calling the function.