move movie clips around on y axis

[mattwatts15]

have two sets of movie clips.
I'm communicating to these movie clips with another program via binary sockets.
For the first set of movie clips: when it recieves its instance name, and a second number (InstanceName+#) from the socket, the named movie clip will jump to the frame corresponding with that number. for ex:
if the incoming data from the socket is (mc7+3), then movieclip 7 will jump to frame 3.

For the second set of movie clips: when it recieves its instance name, and a second number (InstanceName+#) from the socket, the named movie clip will move location across the screen, by the y coordinate moving to the # given by the socket...thats a little confusing. for ex:
if the incoming data from the socket is (mc4+500), then movieclip 4 will move so that it's y coordinate is at 500.

Here is my code:

var socketBuffer:String = "";
s.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.SOCKET_DATA, onDATA);
function onDATA(e:ProgressEvent):void{
  var d:String=s.readUTFBytes(s.bytesAvailable);
  socketBuffer = socketBuffer.concat(d);
  var tokens:Array = socketBuffer.split(".");
  var done:Boolean = false;
  while (tokens.length > 1 && !done){
    var token:String = tokens.shift();
    if (!processToken(token)){
       socketBuffer = token;
       done = true;
    }
  }
  if (!done){
    socketBuffer = tokens.shift();
  }
}

function processToken(token:String):Boolean{
	var tempBoolean:Boolean;
        var embeddedNums:Array = token.split('+');
	if (!embeddedNums  || (embeddedNums.length < 2)){
		tempBoolean=false;
	}
	var clipName:String = embeddedNums[0];
	var frameIndex:int = Number(embeddedNums[1]);
        if (this[clipName]){
  	  this[clipName].gotoAndStop(frameIndex);
	  tempBoolean = true;
        }
		if (this[clipName==FADER.name]){
		this[clipName].y=(frameIndex);		
	}
return tempBoolean;
}

i got rid of some errors. the first part is working where the movie clips jump to the frame they are told to so no errors there. but when i try to move the movie clips in reference to the FADER array, (along the y axis) nothing happens. (look at bold part of code) this is pretty confusing so let me know if u need more explanation

theres also another method i'm willing to approach but i'm not sure how to go about it. rahter than using the FADER array, I would rewrite the code for each individual movie clip, so that it says "if incomign data names a movie clip and gives a number, change the named movie clip's y coordinate to the incoming number"