Flash help tutorial problem

I'm just getting started with Flash and thought I'd work through the tutorials
included in the programs help. The tutorial I'm stuck on is called: Creating
Graphics - Applying Gradients. The section I'm stuck on is Create a transform
gradient with a shape.

I'm having problems applying the radial gradient?either it doesn't work at all
or applies to the fill but not the stoke. This leads me to the question of what
stroke and fill settings I should have set up?after all I don't really want a
stroke! Is this oval shape drawn with object drawing turn't on or something?

I've looked at the completed .fla file and this shadow oval shape seems to be
a group. Has the person who created it grouped the stoke and the fill or what?
Which ever way the shape is created, it doesn't say anything in the tutorial
about how it should be selected to apply the radial gradient! Surely it needs
to be selected somehow? Because when I try to apply the radial gradient nothing
happens!

Please can somebody help me figure this out?it's really bugging me!