flash actionscript: I am trying to target a button inside a dynamically loaded movieclip, such as
the following (but is not working):

clipAnswerYesNo: Movieclip
testbutton: embeded button
Script is on main timeline.

_root.clipAnswerYesNo.testbutton.onRelease = function() {
trace(userAnswer);
}

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ensure both the movieClip and the button have instance names.
also, maybe change your trace to:
trace("hit button"+userAnswer);
it is possible that the trace and therefore the button is working, it's just
the path to userAnswer is incorrect...