hmm... i guess.
that would work but it really sucks that i cant do it from inside the movieclip (im sure a similar situation will come up sooner or later). so there is no way to call global varaibles or functions? that cant be right AS3 is meant to be a propper programing language that is meant to meet the standards the C+ and other languages are set to. it would really suck if AS3 cant.
im thinking that i may be able to set variables and call functions if i create a class that will set variables and handle functions for me. any ideas?