Targeting parent of clicked MC

programming flash
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hi there!
this one’s driving me crazy. I’ve got a button embedded in a MovieClip. When the user clicks the button (from the stage level), I want to return what MC the button’s parent is, so that I can pull some variables from the parent.

public function buttonClicked(e:MouseEvent)
{
       var curNum = MovieClip(e.currentTarget).MovieClip(parent).buttonNum;
}

And I get Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert ButtonMC@3aabf431 to flash.display.MovieClip.
at HolderMC/ButtonSlot1()

I think my syntax is all messed up, but I can’t figure out how to fix it. Any help would be really appreciated.

If it makes things worse, the parent MC is actually of a different class that’s extending MovieClip.

-Travis