Group of movieclips avoiding each other via rotation?

I am trying to accomplish something similar to the map icons in Sims 3, where you have little clips that avoid each other but stay rotated around a static point.


I am trying to use atan2 to accomplish this but I don't think I have it correct.

Here is my current code (AS2 at the moment, until I get a chance to upgrade from F8):

Code:

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import flash.geom.Point;

var tags:Array = [tag01, tag02, tag03];

_root.onMouseUp = function()
{
        tag01._x = _xmouse;
        tag01._y = _ymouse;
}

this.onEnterFrame = function()
{
        var clip1:MovieClip;
        var clip2:MovieClip;
       
        for(var i:Number = 0; i < tags.length; i++)
        {
                for(var j:Number = 0; j< tags.length; j++)
                {
                        if(tags[j] != tags[i])
                        {
                                clip1 = tags[i];
                                clip2 = tags[j];
                               
                                var coord:Point = localToLocal(clip1, _root, {x:clip1.head._x, y: clip1.head._y});
                               
                                var coord2:Point = localToLocal(clip2, _root, {x:clip2.head._x, y: clip2.head._y});
                               
                                var rot:Number = Math.atan2(coord2.y-coord.y, coord2.x - coord.x)/Math.PI*180;
                               
                                clip1._rotation = rot;
                        }
                }
        }       
}

function localToLocal(containerFrom:MovieClip, containerTo:MovieClip, origin:Object):Point
{
        var point:Object = origin == undefined ? {x: 0, y: 0} : origin;
        containerFrom.localToGlobal(point);
        containerTo.globalToLocal(point);
       
        return new Point(point.x, point.y);
}

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anyone?

I've never seen or played sims 3, so I am not really sure what you are trying to get here, heh.

The only movement I see is rotation, so I would guess you are trying to rotate a few mcs out of each other's way? Do you have a registration point that is some distance away from the clips?

Maybe if you could supply a stripped down fla?