Two questions. Why/how.

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1.Why isn't the tacopoints adding up?

In the movie clip "shot" (the bullet) actions I have:
for(i=1;i<=3;i++)
{
if(this.hitTest(_root["face"+i])&&_root["face"+i].dead==0)
{
TacoPoint++;
_root["face"+i].gotoAndPlay(2);
}
}


It's gota be doing/reading TacoPoint++; b/c it does _root["face"+i].gotoAndPlay(2); right? But it seems to stay at 0.



2. Lets say I want to have 3 lives.

and every time one of the face mc's reach the other side of the sage how would I take away one of those lives?



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