to hell with your god damn coding, to make something shake insert a new symbol make it a graphic, put in the symbols youve made and make a few keyframes and move it about, go back to the stage and find your graphic and when ya can tween it and itll shake and all, to fade any graphic or movie clip out, have it where you want it to start to fade, then insert a new keyframe however many frames away you want, go to modify>frame and select the effect tab, on the text box select alpha and lower the bar to zero. insert a motion tween between the frames, viola it fades, once you do it its much simpler then kevins god damned scripting.