You shouldn't have to call trackPageview first in order to call trackEvent.
There was/is a known issue where calling trackEvent would fail if you didn't,
but the cause was really due to trackEvent failing to initialize the GA cookie
data (something that trackPageview does internally).

What you want to do is call _initData() before you call _trackEvent() (instead
of trackPageview). That will initialize the cookie data and allow trackEvent to
work correctly.

--- In webanalytics@yahoogroups.com, webberanalytics <webberanalytics@...>
wrote:
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> Hi All,
> When we use the _trackEvent call on our site, there's an extra pageview to a
> page called "/" which is messing up our content reporting and pageview
> counts. Is it possible to call _trackEvent without it having to call
> pageview with that "/" in the utmp value? We're creating these calls in
> Flash by the way if that changes anything.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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