SWF in PDF - keyListener

All:
I have a SWF with a keyListener that I am using to toggle the visibility of a movie clip. This works great when I play the SWF in the FlashPlayer.exe.
When the SWF is placed into a PDF, the mouse events all work great, but the keyListener no longer works.
Any ideas as to why this might be?
Matt

Probably Acrobat had other plans for the key :-)
No, honestly:
Try out a rare key like ~ and see if that works
a second possibility would be: the stage of the swf has no focus or the movieclip you focused has disappeared from stage (so the Event can not bubble up) If you click on a movieclip to make it disappear, that disappeared moviclip has still the focus, and so naturally keyboardevents won`t work.
set the EventHandler explicitly to the stage
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP, keyHandler);
and after clicking on something that gets removed add the following code to your mousehandler (to regain that Overall-focus)
stage.focus = stage;

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