I am trying to get trace(); to work in Flash MX 2004

have resorted to a small test

myvar = "hello";
trace(myvar);

it works for a buddy of mine... but it wont work for me... no combination of
trace will work.. I can't get de bug to work either

it's like they are disabled...

I looked at my publish settings and the omit trace was not selected

I am also looking for the mm.cfg file to change the the setting manualy but I
can't find that file I searched hidden files as well.

any idea's would be great...