Keeping "state" with many movie clips

In one frame (Frame A), I've dynamically attached many movie
clips for a tile-based game. This happens in the init function of
that frame. If I move to another frame (Frame B) temporarily (to
display something else), it looks like I need to remove or unload
all of the movie clips so that they don't show up on Frame B. Is
that the only way to not have them show? The problem is that when I
return to Frame A, I would like it to have the same state
(positions of objects, etc.) as when I left it. What is the best
way to accomplish this?
As an alternative, I suppose I could draw something on top of
the screen (higher z order) and mask what is below and then remove
what was draw on top when I'm finished with it. I would prefer to
figure out a way to accomplish it the first way, though, because I
can use this for other things as well.
Does anyone have any advice on this?
Thanks!

I understand that you can remove one parent instead of many
children in this way, which is good from an efficiency standpoint.
Beyond that, I was ideally looking for a way to basically "freeze"
the action on Frame A and return to it. I assume that, even with a
parent-child scenario, I would still need to loop through all of
the children and save their states (because just checking the
parent attributes isn't going to get at this information). I was
just asking if there was any easier way. It would be nice to be
able to go to another frame - maybe on another level - and then
come back to Frame A and pick up where I left off - just hopeful
thinking, I guess.

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"The objects i want it to appear above are loaded swf's onto
the same main stage."
Aha, this is where things can get confusing. The terminology
between the Flash Authoring tool and ActionScript is not
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In ActionScript, the Stage is the top most DisplayObject. You
probably get that.
In Flash, the canvas that is often referred to as "the stage"
is not the Stage object of ActionScript, rather the Flash stage is
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of the ActionScript Stage object. It's the only child unless, of
course, you add something else to the ActionScript Stage object at
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Ok, I know replying to my own post is odd on some forums, but
anyhow:
I've done some further testing and find that FlashObject
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You were using AS2 code, which will not work in AS3. That
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For mouse interctive objects (buttons, movieclips, etc) you
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**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 32:
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**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 33:
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**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 34:
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**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=Layer 1, frame=1:Line 44:
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