Simple Play Button Help

Hi, I'm really new to flash and I have just completed an animation. I would like to add a play button at the beginning of the animation that plays the whole thing through. My buttons name is playbutton_btn and all the animation starts on frame 2 (frame one is a blank frame in all layers but the actionscript on the button.) here is the code I have so far (in the first frame of the animation.
stop();
playbutton_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playit);
function playit(event:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndPlay(2);
This is in the hope that it will stop when played and prompt the viewer with the play button screen and when clicked play the animation through to the finish.
I get the error:
1120: Access of undefined property playbutton_btn.
If anyone could give me a hand or point me in the right direction that would be great:).
Cheers.

Since the error you are getting isn't the error I would expect for what I am having you check anyways, I have a suspiscion that you need to go into your Flash Publish Settings and be sure to select AS3 as the actionscript version. I suspect it is not currently so.

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With motion menus, Most players map the play remote key to "Enter", well, except the Apple DVD player. It turns the Play remote key to a Pause key during motion, so Christopher’s viewers would definitely be out of luck there.
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