Removing All Instances of One Movie Clip Help

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Hi all i’m new here and have been using these forums as a personal lifeline, as i have made substantial progresses through my creating of my simple game i have finally hit a snag of which i cannot find the answer for anywhere.

The problem is that I have a timer counting down which is currently set at 2.5 seconds for testing purposes, when the timer finishes out and reaches zero i want the entire stage to be cleared and the playhead to move to frame 5. So far i have this working but my problem is that my remaining children are on the stage and I do not know how to remove all of them since they all of the same name but it is stated that which one i want to remove is not defined. Frame 5 is the lose screen and Frame 4 is the Win screen, I also am having the problem of the timer continuing and creating an error if frame 4 is reached before the timer runs out. Here is my code and thanks in advance it’s greatly appreciated and I will return the favor when i have learned more Actionscript

stop();


//Global Variables
var weap:MovieClip;
var timer:Timer;

init();




// ========================================//









function init()
{
    timer = new Timer(20);
    timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, runGame);
    timer.start();
    this.stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeColor);

//Creates the targets to be hit by weapon.
makeTargets(Math.round (Math.random() * 10), 1);
makeTargets(Math.round (Math.random() * 10), 2);

//Adds the weapon attached to mouse to the stage.
weap = new Weap();
weap.x = weap.y = 100;
weap.name = "weap";
addChild(weap);
}




function runGame(evt:TimerEvent)
{
    //Calling the functions.
    followMouse(evt);
    rotateWeapon(evt);
    checkCollision();
}



function makeTargets(numTargets, frame)
{
    for(var i:int = 0; i < numTargets; i++)
    {
        var target:MovieClip = new Target();
        target.x = Math.random() * stage.stageWidth;
        target.y = Math.random() * stage.stageHeight;
        addChild(target);
        target.name = "target";
        target.gotoAndStop(frame);
    }
}


//This makes the weapon follow the mouse
function followMouse(evt:TimerEvent):void 
{ 
    weap.x += velFriction(weap.x, mouseX, 8);
    weap.y += velFriction(weap.y, mouseY, 8);
}




function velFriction(orig:Number, dest:Number, coeff:Number):Number 
{
    return (dest-orig)/coeff;
}




//This rotates the object to point at the mouse.
function rotateWeapon(evt:Event):void
{
    weap.rotation = getAngle(mouseX, mouseY, weap.x, weap.y);
}




function getAngle(x1:Number, y1:Number, x2:Number, y2:Number):Number 
{
    var radians:Number = Math.atan2(y1-y2, x1-x2);
    return rad2deg(radians);
}




function rad2deg(rad:Number):Number 
{
    return rad * (180/Math.PI);
}


//This changes the object when clicking.
function changeColor(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
    weap.play();
}




//This checks for collisions between objects
function checkCollision() 
{
    
        for(var i:uint = 0; i < this.numChildren; i++)
        {
            if(this.getChildAt(i).name != weap.name)
            {
                var targ = this.getChildAt(i);
                
                if(weap.hitTestObject(targ))
                {
                    if (weap.currentFrame == targ.currentFrame) 
                    {
                        //Removes target when collision is correctly matched.
//                        trace("same")
                        removeChild(targ);
                        trace(numChildren);
                            if(this.numChildren == 1)
                            {
                                trace("gotoAndStop(4)")
                                removeChild(weap);
                                timer.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, runGame)
                                this.gotoAndPlay(4);
                            }
                    }
                    else
                    {
//                        trace("different")
                        //Removes target when collision is incorrectly matched.
                        removeChild(targ);
                        //Repeat loop to add two of the following each time it is called.
                        for(var j:uint = 0; j < 2; j++)
                        {
                            //Adds new targets if incorrect collision is detected.
                            var target:MovieClip = new Target();
                            target.x = Math.random() * 500;
                            target.y = Math.random() * 300;
                            addChild(target);
                            target.name = "target";
                            target.gotoAndStop(targ.currentFrame);
                            trace(numChildren);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
}

//timer length in seconds
var timerLength:Number = 5;

//new timer, 1000ms = 1 sec
var t:Timer = new Timer(500, timerLength);
t.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, checkTime);

//start timer
t.start();

function checkTime (e:TimerEvent):void
{
    trace(--timerLength);
        if(timerLength == 0)
        {
        trace("gotoAndStop(5)");
        removeChild(weap);
        timer.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER,runGame);
        this.gotoAndPlay(5);
        }
}