Using a variable to reference an object

Hello all,

I desperately hoping someone can shed light on my problem. I am trying to reference a movieclip with a variable. I’ve done it before but in loops reading from xmlobjects but cannot get it to work in the most simplist way…??

var i = 0;
_root.movie*._visible=0;

should be just the same as

_root.movie0._visible=0;

should it not?

I have attached the .fla

thanks so much to anyone who can help me on this…its killling me…