For some reason I cannot add any code to symbols in flash, but only the frames.
When I click a symbol (tried movie clips, buttons, and graphics) and go to
actions it just says "Current selection cannot have actions applied to it".
This makes no sense to me since I KNOW that flash allows object-oriented
programming. I really am confused. I just installed flash by the way. Anybody
have any ideas?

hmm, so you cant put actions on symbols now, then how do you do things such as
controlling an object with the arrow keys? Do you have to somehow do everything
through the keyframe actions? What is the point of romoving that?

a.s. 3 is very different from previous versions of a.s.