Selection.setFocus() weirdness

Hi All,
I am getting a bug in Flash player and also in the Flash Test
Movie publish involving the Selection.setFocus() method (authored
using Flash 8).
I have 3 movie clips that require focus toggled between them
via keyboard directional arrow input. Those clips are:
- musicVolume_mc
- effectsVolume_mc
- speechVolume_mc
I initially set the focus to the first movieClip:
Code:
Selection.setFocus("musicVolume_mc");
and then each movieClip uses the following code example
placed on the clip itself to target the next clip;
Code:
on(keyPress "<Up>"){
Selection.setFocus("_parent.speechVolume_mc");
on(keyPress "<Down>"){
Selection.setFocus("_parent.effectsVolume_mc");
Trouble is, the focus doesn't get passed as you would expect
between each of the 3 clips, it gets stuck and jumps to the wrong
clip....it's quite strange and frustrating. Has anyone had this
issue?
What do other people use to set Focus between movieClips
reliably..?
thanks
mitchell

thanks for your reply,
I managed to solve the problem by disabling the tabEnabled
setting with is by default set to "true" and clashes with keyboard
arrow input..
Code:
instanceName.tabEnabled=false;
Also, if anyone else has this issue in future, relative paths
inside the setFocus parameter didn't work for me....so use absolute
ones instead, as in the following example.
Code:
Selection.setFocus("_root.audioOptions.effectsVolume_mc");
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