Falling Snow tutorial with a twist. Help

programming flash
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Hi all! Yay its Friday!

I’ve done my own version of Kirupa’s Falling Snow tutorial.
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/snow.htm

I wanted to change the 1-frame movieclip for the snow into a 3 or more frame movieclip. Each frame would have a stop action assigned to it. Now on the actionscript part I wanted to say something like this:


now = new Date().getHours();

// Sets 24 hour format on the hours display.

if (hours>=13) {
	nHours = nHours-12;
}

// If hours are 00:00 to 11:59 set "snow" to display frame 1, snow

if (now>=0 && now<12) {
	pad.gotoAndStop("snow");
}

// If hours are 12:00 to 05:59 set "snow" to display frame 2, a dog

if (now>=12 && now<19) {
	pad.gotoAndStop("dog");
}

//If hours are 06:00 to 11:59 set "snow" to display frame 3, a car

if (now>=19 && now<24) {
	pad.gotoAndStop("car");
}

for (k=0; k<10; k++) {
	duplicateMovieClip(_root.snow, "snow"+k, k+0);
}

“Snow” frame 1 is a snow flake symbol
“Snow” frame 2 is a dog symbol
“Snow” frame 3 is a car symbol

So on a certain time the movieclip will swap to a different frame and the “snow” will appear to be something different like a dog or a car symbol. When I try this it doesn’t work properly. I get a full snow fall and only 1 instance appearing as it should do. So I get 10 instances of snow, but only 1 instance of a falling dog amongst them. Can anyone help me?