Label doesn't move

[FormerSwinger]

I have a label inside an mc that is mimicing a button. The mc has a var that determines the labels position and visibility of various graphics. If I change the var and the label position with move() nothing happens to the label. When I move the mouse over the label the position changes. The mc is stopped to a frame called out. if i try to update the label pos withy gotoAndplay("out") the grahocs I want to keep hidden become visible. I also tried the doLater function but that also gets called only when I move my mouse over the label.

Is there any way to force the label to move?