Duplicate movie clip question

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i’m creating a drag and drop application where users can construct a finished product from smaller subproducts. I’ve got all the drag and drop functionality nailed down. I use duplicateMovieClip to create a duplicate of a separate movieclip when you click on a button on the stage. the new clips are simply children of the _root.

I’d like to have them be children of a movieclip instead as i need to have several states in my movie and would like to be able to come back to this drag/drop state and have the clips/construction still in place.

here’s my basic code that uses duplicateMovieClip:

fourSixButton.cnt=4000;
fourSixButton.onPress=function(){
	fourSixClip.duplicateMovieClip("fourSix"+this.cnt, this.cnt);
	newClip=_root["fourSix"+this.cnt];
	newClip.instanceName=_root["fourSix"+this.cnt];
	newClip._x=this._x+19.5;
	newClip._y=this._y+37;
	newClip.startDrag(false, xBoundsLeft, yBoundsTop, xBoundsRight, yBoundsBot);
	newClip.gotoAndStop("enabled");
	newClip.enable=true;
	newClip.price=this.price;
	trace("PRICE: "+this.price);
	_global.spinClip=newClip;
	trace("newClip: "+newClip);
	this.cnt++;
	
}

if anyone can advise on how to target a movieclip instead of _root, that would be great!