Need help w/ portfolio, thumbnail loading

programming flash
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I am trying to create a portfolio gallery with thumbnails that are movie clips loaded from the library, and the actual thumbnail image is loaded into another nested movieclip. i.e. ThumbMC contains ThmbPic(thumbnail image). Then I would like each thumbnail to function as a button and load the related image into a larger holder movieclip and description into a description text field. All of the relevant data is being loaded from an xml file.

I have most of the stuff in place, I think I’m just running into issues with the correct pathing. If someone can help me with this or has a more efficent and effective way of getting this done I’m all for it.

Thanks

stop();
// - - - - - - - - - <MCL> - - - - - - - - - \\
var myMCL:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
 
//Array Variables
var thumbArr = new Array();
var imageArr = new Array();
var descArr = new Array();
var Index = 0;
 
//Position Variables
var xPos:Number = 50;// x position (upper left corner)
var yPos:Number = 75;// y position (upper left corner)
var nt:Number = 29;// total number
var nc = 5;// number of columns
var vd:Number = 40;// vertical distance between the mcs
var hd:Number = 50;// horizontal distance between the mcs
 
//Array to create grid
for (var i = 0; i<=nt; i++) {
    var Thmb_MC = this.attachMovie("thmbMC", "Thmb_MC"+i, i);
    var aprox = Math.floor((i-0)/nc); 
    Thmb_MC._x = xPos+hd*((i-aprox*nc)-0);
    Thmb_MC._y = yPos+aprox*vd;
    };
 
//Load XML content
var dbXML:XML = new XML();
dbXML.ignoreWhite = true;dbXML.onLoad = function() {
    gallery = this.firstChild;
    photo = gallery.childNodes; 
   for (var i = 0; i<photo.length; i++) {
        photo* = photo.childNodes*;
        //Array to load Thumbs, Images, and Description Info from XML
        thumbArr* = "Thumbs/"+photo*.firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue;
        imageArr* = "Images/"+photo*.firstChild.nextSibling.firstChild.nodeValue;
        descArr* = photo*.firstChild.nextSibling.nextSibling.firstChild.nodeValue; 
   }
 
//Load initial Image and Description
myMCL.loadClip(imageArr[Index], "picHolder");
desc_MC.descTxt.text = descArr[Index];
 
//Load Thumbnails
function loadThmbs() {
for (i=0; i<41; i++) {
myMCL.loadClip(thumbArr*, Thmb_MC.thmbPic);//what is correct path to load each thumbnail
};
};
loadThmbs();
 
//Thumb button function to load Images and Descriptions
this.Thmb_MC.onRelease = function() {//need to associate correct thumbnail    myMCL.loadClip(imageArr*, picHolder);
    };
};
 
dbXML.load("xml/gallery.xml");