attachMovie head mess

[Adamius]

I'm doing a standard attachMovie like so:
s.attachMovie("service","service2",100)
everything is linked properly, named properly, spelled properly, i've done it a million times before but all of a sudden i've got an error message saying:
**Error** Symbol=service, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 1: The class or interface 'service' could not be loaded.
it's doing my head in, i've tried everything i know. checked all the linkage properties, made sure the spelling is correct, export on the first frame etc etc. to be sure i've gone over and checked all the tutorials i could find and nothing mentions anything i havn't done, wondering if some one out there might be able to give me a pointer? would be greatly appreciated
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[lostinbeta]

I don't use Flash 8, but did you try renaming it? Perhaps 'service' is a pre-existing class it thinks you are trying to call and is causing a conflict?

[Adamius]

yeah, i've tried giving them all kinds of names, messing around wit the speach marks, putting in traces etc etc etc, nothing seems to make a difference. if i have more movies in the library that have linkage properties then the out put box says that its failed to load them to so i'm not so sure now that its a problem with the attachMovie, more they're not there.. and setting linkage properties is hardly a challenge so i'm quite certain i got that right too...*hmf*