         // Push items onto the proto chain in reverse order, beginning with
         // 6) Follow the usual search path for the styleName object
         var nonInheritChain:Object = styleName.nonInheritingStyles;
-        if (!nonInheritChain || nonInheritChain == StyleManager.STYLE_UNINITIALIZED)
+        if (!nonInheritChain ||
+            nonInheritChain == StyleProtoChain.STYLE_UNINITIALIZED)
         {
             nonInheritChain = StyleManager.stylesRoot;
 

        }

        var inheritChain:Object = styleName.inheritingStyles;
        if (!inheritChain || inheritChain == StyleManager.STYLE_UNINITIALIZED)
            inheritChain = StyleManager.stylesRoot;

        // If there's no type selector on this object, then we can collapse
        // 6 steps to 2 (see above)


    //--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    //
    //  Class constants
    //
    //--------------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     *  @private
     *  The inheritingStyles and nonInheritingStyles properties
     *  are initialized to this empty Object.
     *  This allows the getStyle() and getStyle()
     *  methods to simply access inheritingStyles[] and nonInheritingStyles[]
     *  without needing to first check whether those objects exist.
     *  If they were simply initialized to {}, we couldn't determine
     *  whether the style chain has already been built or not.
     */
    public static const STYLE_UNINITIALIZED:Object = {};
    
    //--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    //
    //  Class methods
    //
    //--------------------------------------------------------------------------
