Duplicate movie clip depth

Mushi mushi.

I’m using this code

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
i++;
duplicateMovieClip(_root.star,“star”+i,i);
_root.counter=i;
}

and what I think that’s doing is placing each new clip it creates on a new level above the one before it. It’s caused a problem as I have other stuff in my movie that I need to stay above these movie clips, and at the moment it’s getting bumped to the bottom.

Anyone have any ideas as to how I can keep these generated movieclips below my content, or maybe go the other way and push my content above the movie clips?

Thanks in advance.

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