each of these event needed to have 2 mapscripts...
one like:
and another like:
I had neglected the first one...
it confuses me because it had worked before (and so did mew) without that first script... then when I released the Beta... it stopped working?!? but it apears to work now...
it may have had something to do with my lasttalked being the dog... if I had ran around doing stuff before going to the second dog it may not have disappeared. or it might have... who knows...