New to action script 3 and am really confused

Hello and thank you in advance for helping if you can. I have a website banner that I made in flash. Everything works great and the last thing I need to do is add some script to it. One code is simple the stop action. So I added a new layer, called it actions and then clicked on the last frame inserted a blank keyframe and then opened the action window and typed in stop(); It worked great the banner cycled through once then stopped.
Now here comes the part that has me stumped. I need to make this banner link to an external website. so this is what I did. On the actions layer I clicked the first frame and opened the actions window, Oh first I have a block of text converted to symbol (movie clip) and named the instance click_mc, then in the actions script window this is what I typed
var link:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.mojaveampworks.com/dirtyboy/DirtyBoy/Dirty_Boy.html");
click_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);
function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void
navigateToURL(link);
click_mc.buttonMode = true;
Now when I run the movie it doesn't run at all. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated as I'm ready to through this whole project out the window. Sorry if this question is redundant but I am new with action script.
thanks

Hi Ned and thank you for responding.
I am not getting a compiler error but in the output I am getting this error: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at dirtyboybnr2_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()

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New to action script and getting: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a nu

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I ran the debugger and got this:
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at peakInsights_fla::MainTimeline/frame1()[peakInsights_fla.MainTimeline::frame1:48]
I guess it's telling me there's a problem with line 48 but what?
The home, about, business, contact, and archives button works. On the business page there are the remaining buttons biotech, technology, real estate, and energy. when i test it; i get the finger but the buttons don't work. this is my first flash site so I'am new, new.

I followed the steps and read some of your comments on the same top topic in another thread. When I put it on the first frame it was okay but the next button on that page had the same problem. So what I am guessing is that I have to either create a document class or put the actions where the buttons are. Am I understanding that correctly? In the other thread in which you helped someone else; there was so comments about document class. I found a tutorial on it and the way I understand it is that it you can put you actions in an external document. But you have to include in the event listener the frame in which you want that action to happen.
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arikanoa wrote:
> I am creating a video gallery off of the demo action
script 3, video gallery,
> that is shown on this site. I have updated the XML file
that contains the link
> to the thumbnails and videos to the appropriate url.
When I test the project
> out, I get the following error:
>
> TypeError: Error #1085: The element type "video" must be
terminated by the
> matching end-tag "</video>".
> at
fvg::FlashVideoGallery/fvg:FlashVideoGallery::onDataHandler()
> at
>
flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunctio
> n()
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> at
flash.net::URLLoader/flash.net:URLLoader::onComplete()
>
> I am fairly new to Action Scripts and would really
appreciate overcoming this
> hurdle.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ari
>
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