Loot advice

Hello,

Just basically asking for some ideas/advice (preferably no code included (i like to teach myself as much as i can =) )) on how people have/plan to deal with loot and items in general in their games? So far i have a few items that get made via create empty movieclip and attach movieclip when you talk to a person just as testing. But im already running into problems referencing them, eg. you have to pick them up in a certain order for it to work.The way I’m wanting it so that theres quite a few different items to pick up, depending on what mobs your killing etc.

So yeh just any ideas on how other people have gone about doing this would be great. =D

-Grant.