Copying Actions To A Duplicated Symbol?

Oct 2, 2009

I am an newbie trying to take an existing Flash game and modifying it for my own selfish goals.  I am duplicating symbols and trying to preserve all of their actions so that I can then swap them out for my own symbols.  When I swap, actions are preserved, but I have run out of symbols to swap, so now I am trying to duplicate the remaining symbol so I have more to swap with, but when I duplicate the actions are lost.  I have adjusted the actions code to accommodate more symbols ( or at least I think I have)

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