DuplicateMovieClip with externaly loaded movie

Hi
the function duplicateMovieClip gives me a real hard time.
I dynamically load certain parts of my application using the
MovieClipLoader, then (when the external movieclip is completely
loaded and intialized) I try to duplicate this movieclip using the
duplicateMovieClip function, but it doesn't work.
Using the function on a movieclip that has been created at
design time or using createEmptyMovieclip work, but not with the
externaly loaded ones.
Is this some kind of security problem? How can it be solved.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Paul

quote:
it will need to be in a flash library.
Does this mean it needs to be in _a_ flash library or in
_the_ flash library of the main movie?
In other words, could I mark the part of the external
movielcip to be exported as actionscript variable and then use it
with duplicate movieclip in the main movie? or is there any
workaround to achieve the goal of having externaly loaded parts of
an application to be duplicatable?
Right now I do another loadMovieClip for every instance of
the layout part instead of duplicating the previously loaded one. I
guess as long as caching is enabled in the surrounding browser this
is not a big problem, but if the cache is turned of I guess this
solution will result in a lot of traffic slowing the application
down.

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