JSFL - Refreshing a Textfield within a Movieclip?

I'm making a script that updates text within several movieclips in a Flash document. Loading object names and new copy from a text file is working, opening those objects and replacing their embedded textfields' text is working, and everything looks great when you publish the SWF.
However - the IDE only sometimes updates the text that appears in the textfield from the main timeline. So if a title is supposed to say 'New Title' instead of 'Title', it will read as 'Title' when I'm looking at the project from the root level. When I double-click on the symbol instance to view its embedded textfield, it changes to 'New Title'. Then when I return to the root, it reverts to 'Title'. It's only a cosmetic problem, but it makes it appear as though the tool does not work.

quote:
Originally posted by:
kglad
you must wait until the contents of that frame are rendered
before trying to reference the contents. flash has a render event
you can use for that purpose.
Thanks for the reply. I did a little googling and it looks
like I'm screwed:
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=143158
Because my attached MC uses different frames for different
dialog boxes (that share elements, hence on the different frames)
there is no guarantee that it'll work.
I did a test on my own and the Event.RENDER wasn't even
firing at all :(

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