I've created a dropdown menu (by duplicating a movie-clip) for a purchase portfolio. The movie includes a cancel button to enable you to cancel 'duplicate' add x.

When an item is cancelled a post is made to a perl script, and flash loops until it receives the updated data. Before pulling in the updated data I need to remove the existing dup mc's and it's here that I'm having a problem.

It appears that Flash 5 places the dup mc's on the first frame of the movie clip (even though the actual movie-clip that's being duplicated is on frame 3) - can anyone confirm that this is the case? Also the problems I'm having could be related to pathing. The depths of each dup are incrementing (depth of x) but are they on the same level as the original clip? I'm a bit fuzzy on the whole depth vs level scenario.
I'd be grateful to speak to anyone who thinks they've got it sussed as this is a nighmare to debug 'cause I can't do it locally
Cheers,
Neil