[F5] Movie Clip Properties!

I am about to go crazy trying to change the property of a movie clip. Could someone tell me why this doesn’t work:

movieheight = _root._level1.project._height
_root._level1.mytext = movieheight

-movieheight is a variable in the movie which has been loaded into level1.
-project is a movie clip (I made sure I named it properly).
-mytext is a text box in the main timeline of the movie in level1. (I set the variable to mytext for this box too).

I have tried to use eval("_root._level1.project.height"), but nothing works - the movie’s height never shows up in the text box. Debug > List Variables tells me that movieheight is “undefined” If you know what’s wrong, please let me know.

ditch the _root.