Dictionary Object: AARRGH! - where is Senocular when you need him?

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Trying to get my head around using the dictionary object. I think it may solve my problem.

I want to reference paper vision planes which are instances of the Plane Papervision class.

Originally i tried having all my planes in an array and then looping through the array to apply a tween to each plane, but I was getting either a string instead of the actual object, or getting the value for the plane object which is basically its coordinates in the papervision scene.

I decided that what I need is to use the dictionary object to store my planes in (as objects) and reference them with a for loop.

This appeared to work (for one plane, the last plane in the dictionary) and then it halts completely. I try to trace out the value and i get “null = 4: x:307 y:0 z:0”.

enough jibber jabber, here’s the code and hopefully you can get an idea of what i’m trying to do:

function threeDout():void
	{	
		var bl:BlurFilter = new BlurFilter(3,3,1);  //blur view port slightly
		viewport.filters = [bl];
		
		for(var i:* in homePlanes)
		{
			trace(i+" = "+homePlanes*);
			Tweener.addTween(homePlanes*,{rotationX:540, rotationY:360, z:300, y:plane1yOut, x:plane1xOut, alpha:0, transition:"easeInOutQuad",time:1.5})

		}
		
		
		
	}
	
	var homePlanes:Dictionary = new Dictionary();
	var p1:Object;
	var p2:Object;
	var p3:Object;
	
	homePlanes[p1] = plane1;  //plane1, plane2, plane3 are papervision planes and if i use tweener with their variable names directly, they respond perfectly.
	
	homePlanes[p2] = plane2;
	
	homePlanes[p3] = plane3;

any help from the real programmers (i am designer who knows enough code to be dangerous) here would be incredible guys… i’m ready to light myself on fire!