The Dink Network

Yep. The only way to get pretty much anything but the standard enemy death stuff working via the die procedure, is to immediately have it spawn to another script. I remember back in the day, there was a case in which this confused the heck outta me, cause I accidentally killed a sprite that my cutscene was attached to.

EDIT: Also Tim, you're going through 2004 crazy fast! You've already reached June!