Dynamic onRelease not registering

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so i’m making a dynamic menu that reads off an xml for thumbnails, etc.
so far i haven’t had any problems building this interface.

so far the movieclips get created and load the jpgs all correctly but i [COLOR=Red]cannot get them to recognize their onrelease function.[/COLOR]

this method is called from its parent timeline.

function buildNav(secSize:Number, boxes:Array) {
    sep = 10;
    //back = secSize -1;
    trace(secSize+" and  "+boxes);
    
    for (i=0; i<secSize; i++) {
        this.createEmptyMovieClip("box"+i, this.getNextHighestDepth());
        eval("box"+i).loadMovie(boxes*);
        eval("box"+i)._x = sep;
        temp = 109;
        //trace(temp);
        sep = sep+temp+10;
        //trace(sep);
        //back = back-1
        this["box"+i].cur = i;
        trace("box curs are : "+this["box"+i].cur);
        this["box"+i].onRelease = function() {
            t = this.cur;
            //_parent.display(t, 0);
            trace("clicked "+t);
        }
    }
}

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