Number increment trouble

Question

I'm using Flash 8 -- Actionscript 2.0
I've created a quiz that i want to keep track of the user
score. i've created a function that, whenever the learner clicks to
check the answer of his/her question, checks the correct answer
versus what the person picked. I've created a function to play a
movie correct movie clip or incorrect movie clip depending on the
situation. i've also tried to add one to the user score each time
theperson is right, but so far, i'm only getting the first
addition, and nothing since (my trace result keeps coming back as
1...) can someone show me where i'm going wrong?

Answer 1

Does the timeline have more than one frame, perhaps with a
gotoAndStop or gotoAndPlay back to this frame with this code. If
so, perhaps its resetting userScore back to zero each time that
happens.
e.g. if you have this on frame 1:
var userScore:Number;
userScore = 0;
trace(userScore)
userScore++
and this on frame 2:
gotoAndPlay(1)
then you will never see a trace of 1 because its being reset
to zero each time.