Alright thanks. I use Win2000 at work, but i use XP at home, so i go back and forth between the systems. If i copy the control from the form on one project and paste it on the form in a new project everything works fine. Its when i try to manually add the component to the project that gives me problems. So as of right now, i have it working the way i want. Unless there's a way for u to tell me how to convert the length to minutes and seconds It gives it in frames, so that kinda bugs me. Since i made the flash file, i know how fast its going (12fps), so i could just divide 60/12fps to get seconds. Then go from there, but if i didn't make the file, i'm guessing it'd be pretty hard to tell.