I'm making a flash glossary, and for each letter (a->z) I load in all terms that starts with it (when the user press 'a' -> load in all terms that start with 'a' etc).

The terms and defenitions are all stored in MySQL, and I use PHP to load it in.

I load in all the 'a' terms into term.swf, duplicate my original movieclip, put the term into it and format them out nicly, that's not a problem (localhost/term.swf shows them all there, each term with a border around it).
Then I load term.swf into my main.swf (into a empty movieclip)
Now: I need the term.swf behind a mask (I never know how many terms there will be starting with 'a', so I need to be able to scroll the clip).
When I load main.swf : all I can see is the border around where the term should be (in the generated movieclip).

Is it impossible to show dynamicly generated text behind a mask???
The border does show up, why the border and not the text???

I'm at a dead end here, so: any ideas?? hints, or have you seen a reference to this somewhere else??

I have been trying to search the board, but to no avail.

Thanks!