Thank you for all the help, guys. That solved my problem!

goto your preferance settings under the edit menu and make sure the drawing tool enabled on frame zero only option is not checked . you should be able to re-order your layers the way you want then :) or make sure you are on frame 0 Thank you for the response! I went to the preferance settings like ...

I am having difficulties putting my character BEHIND a hill. The character goes behind the trees, but not the hill! I have 4 layers(sky, foreground, and two hill layers). It isn't letting me using any of the tools on the character, save for the translate, scale, and rotate layer, and set the origin....