Creating functions for movie-clips(serious problem)

Hello,
This is I think my third thread on these forums and in my
previous threads I had always got some help.Well, now I have
another serious problem, can you help me?
I am unable to create a function that can control movie
clips. Let me explain:-
I have 10 movie clips on the stage and I have assigned them
that whenever they crash to an object, they will go to a random
position. Writing this code ten times for each movie clip would be
very tedious, so, I thought about creating a function, but, it
doesn't work. Here's the function, can you correct it?
var object:movieClip;
function position(object) {
var testnum1:Number;
testnum1 = random(290)+36;
_root.object._y = -77.6;
_root.object._x = testnum1;
position(nameofmovieclip)
PLEASE HELP IS REQUIRED!!!!
Thanking All,
Chinmaya

Thanks for the reply,
I tried that, it worked!
But, now, I am encountering a really odd problem. This time
I'll give you my full code.The problem is, that now when the object
collides with another one, it changes its position according to the
code but then after a while, it just passes through the object.
Here's my code:-
function position(object) {
var testnum1:Number;
testnum1 = random(290)+36;
object._y = -77.6;
object._x = testnum1;
metal.onEnterFrame = function() {
_root.metal._y += speednum;
if (_root.metal.hitTest(_root.testline)) {
position(_root.metal);
speednum = random(6)+1;
Can you help me out again,
Thanks,
Chinmaya
P.S. I have tried to use the function like this:
position(metal), but it doesn't work. And yes, I have already
defines speednum somewhere before, so that isn't the
problem.

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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 13:47:57 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: removeChild for movie clip that was added in another function?
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