Child objects not rendering correctly?

[danimal]

I've made a layout which is a rectangle converted to a movie clip (calling it a panel), then inside it I have a few dynamic text fields, some input text fields, and a button. The intention is to have something like a form object, that I can just drag the panel over into my app and have all those fields in the panel. I need to be able to hide the whole thing at once, with panel._visible = false (or show it again). It looks perfect in the IDE (Flash 8 Pro), but when I run the swf, my static text's look fine, my TextInput's don't have the background color or bevel although you can cursor over them and then type, and my Button doesn't have it's text (and doesn't even appear to be clickable). Have I done something wrong?

I am coming from a Java background where you have panels that act as containers for other components, this is what I need to emulate.

Thanks!