Trying to simulate button click via ActionScript

Hello,
I've got code written to tell if a user is hitting his/her
left or right arrow keys. I currently have a "next" button named
realNext, and a "back" button named realBack. Both buttons have
lots of code written in their on(release) functions. How can I
utilize ActionScript to simulate a button click?
Here's my code thus far:

I have never had success **** this by calling the onRelease
or onPress event functions. So to get around this I define other
functions that do all of the work and then just use the onRelease
and onPress event functions as callers.
For example.
button1.onRelease = myFunction;
function myfunction():Void {
// code goes here
Now with this I can either press the button to ge thte code
executed or I can "simulate" the button being pushed by just
calling myFunction().
Tim

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