Does anyone else have this problem...

You go and "duplicateMovieClip()" and try to call functions contained in your duplicated clip but the functions are not immediately accessable.

For instance:

function dupe_me(){
//duplicate an existing clip
clip.duplicateMovieClip("clip"+1,100);
//call a "method" of the new clip
clip1.turn_blue();//wont call function
//but properties exist
trace(clip1._name+clip1._x)
}

Later... clip1.turn_blue() works! It seems to me that this needs to be fixed! In ANY programming language, if I create a new instance of an object, I should immediately be able to access object methods!

Is there something I'm missing or should Macromedia fix this?