Help positioning movie clip

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In the following code when my movie first starts I want all my movieClips to be 25 pixels appart from each other no matter what the width of the mc. In the function “thumbnails” I can’t seem to get my images to be seperated by 25 pixels on start up.

I also want to set the y position of each movie clip so each image is seperated in the y direction by varying amounts but not to excede maxY amount. I haven’t built that in yet.
I am just trying to get them seperated in the x position by the correct amount.

Any help appreciated.:}


cliparray = [];
function loadXML(loaded) {
 if (loaded) {
  xmlNode = this.firstChild;
  image = [];
  description = [];
  thumbnails = [];
  total = xmlNode.childNodes.length;
  for (i=0; i<total; i++) {
   //image* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
   //description* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
   thumbnails* = xmlNode.childNodes*.childNodes[2].firstChild.nodeValue;
   thumbnails_fn(i);
  }
  firstImage();
 } else {
  content = "file not loaded!";
 }
}
xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load("images.xml");
/////////////////////////////////////
this.createEmptyMovieClip("tscroller", 1000);
scroll_speed = 2;
var tot = 0;
tscroller.onEnterFrame = function() {
 if ((_root._ymouse>=thumbnail_mc._y) && (_root._ymouse<=thumbnail_mc._y+thumbnail_mc._height)) {
  // if mouse enters hit state change direction
  if (_root._xmouse>=(hit_right._x-40)) {
   for (var obj in cliparray) {
    cliparray[obj]._x -= scroll_speed;
   }
   //clip image from front added back in the rear
   if (cliparray[0]._x<-cliparray[0]._width) {
    cliparray[0]._x = cliparray[cliparray.length-1]._x+cliparray[cliparray.length-1]._width+25;
    var j = cliparray.splice(0, 1);
    cliparray = cliparray.concat(j);
   }
   // if mouse enters hit state change direction
  } else if (_root._xmouse<=(hit_left._x+40)) {
   for (var obj in cliparray) {
    cliparray[obj]._x += scroll_speed;
   }
   //clip image from front added back in the rear
   if (cliparray[cliparray.length-1]._x>hit_right._x) {
    cliparray[cliparray.length-1]._x = cliparray[0]._x-(cliparray[cliparray.length-1]._width+25);
    var j = cliparray.splice(cliparray.length-1, 1);
    cliparray = j.concat(cliparray);
   }
  }
 }
};
function thumbnails_fn(k) {
 var yy = thumbnail_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("t"+k, thumbnail_mc.getNextHighestDepth());
 cliparray.push(yy);
 tlistener = new Object();
 tlistener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc) {
  //target_mc._x = 5+(target_mc._width+5)*k; 
  target_mc._x = 5+target_mc._x+target_mc._width+25;
  //trace(target_mc._width)
  //tot += target_mc._x;
 };
 image_mcl = new MovieClipLoader();
 image_mcl.addListener(tlistener);
 image_mcl.loadClip(thumbnails[k], "thumbnail_mc.t"+k);
}