TextArea.text = undefined

I have a movieclip with a TextArea inside it with the instance name writeUps_txt.

The movieclip is added to the stage with actionscript and I want to set the text inside writeUps_txt after the movieclip is added to the stage.

Why won’t the following work?

infoPages*.writeUps_txt.text = blurbs*;

I’ve checked everything and all of my arrays contain the right objects so everything is kosher there. To add to the problem, this line:

infoPages*.title_txt.text = locations*;

does work and the only difference is that title_txt is dynamic text.

Is there a difference between how dynamic text and textAreas behave in this regard?

Any ideas?

Cheers.