Communicating with main timeline symbols

Hi, i created a movieclip and exported it to Actionscript. I have a few instances of the new symbol(class) on the main time line and i have some
code on the class timeline. im trying to communicate with a movieclip instance that located in the main time line but for some reason im getting
an error. the name of the movieclip instance is mcGalleryWin. im pretty sure that the root keyword worked for me before in a similar situation
but for some reason its not workin now...
I tried to trace (root) from the class and i do get the main timeline.
code:
imageLdr.load(imageReq);
    imageLdr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, firstImageLoaded);
    function firstImageLoaded(event:Event){
        root.mcGalleryWin.addChild(imageLdr);
error:
1119: Access of possibly undefined property mcGalleryWin through a reference with static type flash.display:DisplayObject.

thanks, it works....
how funny i tried to do that in a different way :
MovieClip(root.mcGalleryWin).addChild(imageLdr); but it didn't work....
anyway, thanks alot !!!

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