Random XML into Flash problem

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Ok so short version of what I’ve got going on is I have a button on the stage. and when said button is pressed, a random quote from 24 items in my XML file will be inserted into a textbox in another movieclip.

I’m creating an empy mc, that when the button is pressed, an mc loads into it that looks like a cartoon chat bubble. this mc has a textfield in it that the XML quote gets loaded into.

here’s what I’ve got on the main timeline:

function loadXML (loaded) {
	if (loaded) {
		xmlRoot = this.firstChild;
		saying = [];
		total = xmlRoot.childNodes.length;
		for (i=0; i<total; i++) {
			saying* = xmlRoot.childNodes*.firstChild.nodeValue;
		}
	}
}

xmlData = new XML ();
xmlData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlData.onLoad = loadXML;
xmlData.load("sayings.xml");

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("emptymc", 100);
	
bobbles.ryan.ryanHead.onRelease = function() {
	_root.attachMovie("cbRyan", emptymc, 100, {_x:170, _y:100});
	p = Math.floor(Math.random() * total);
	_root.emptymc.cbRyan.chatryan.text = saying[p];
}

the mc loaded into the empty mc is called cbRyan and the textfield is called chatryan.

Any ideas as to why the XML won’t load into the textfield?