Accessing an Array in a duplicated movie clip

I have a movie clip that has a script declaration of:
var myCGroup:Array = Array();
in the first frame.
(I've also tried var myCGroup:Array; var myCGroup:Array = new
Array(); and var myCGroup:Array = []; )
I duplicate this movie clip multiple times. I'm having
trouble targeting the variable myCGroup from elsewhere in the
timeline. Other non-array variables that are declared in the same
place are fully accessible.
The only code I've been able to write that writes to this
variable is:
eval(targetThumb).myCGroup = prodFlush[2].childNodes;
which actually takes the childnodes and creates an array with
them.
However, reading them back out from a separate function later
is impossible:
trace("colors to target =====" +
eval(masterProds[sm]).myCGroup);
returns nothing. I can read and write to other variables from
the same function using the same targeting.
(yes, materProds[sm] == targetThumb)
Also, the following code results in an undefined array:
// for(cg=0;cg<cGroupArray.length;cg++){
eval(targetThumb).myCGroup.push(cGroupArray[cg].firstChild.nodeValue);
// trace("time: " + cg + " || adding this color group " +
cGroupArray[cg].firstChild.nodeValue + " to product: "+ targetThumb
+ "===== " + eval(targetThumb).myCGroup)
Is this a bug, or a documented local vs. global variable
option that I'm unaware about regarding arrays?
Any other thoughts? I'm at my wits end.
Thanks in advance.
-r

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question[i] = questionSet.getString("QUESTION");or "ANSWER" for the anser record set.
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