Error #1119

I’m building a dynamic scrolling picture gallery. I got the annoying Error 1119 when I test my fla movie. It’s reporting that “basename = root.basename;” is undefined. LOL…Here is my code…

From Scene1


var basename:String = "family";

Inside the thumb_template MC


var id:Number;
var basename:String;

basename = root.basename;

var thumbURL:String = "images/" +  basename + id + ".jpg";

var imageLdr:Loader = new Loader();
var imageURLReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest(thumbURL);
imageLdr.load(imageURLReq);
imageLdr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, imageLoaded);

function imageLoaded(event:Event):void {
    loadTarget.addChild(imageLdr.content);
}