Only one layer stops

Question

I have successfully managed to make play and pause controls which plays and pauses all movieclips and assigned soundchannels. The problem I have is that only the child movieclip which is placed on the top layer stops and plays and the other child movieclips are ignored.
Here is the code:
import flash.media.Sound;
import flash.media.SoundChannel;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
pause_btn.visible = true;
play_btn.visible = false;
var mySound:Sound = new MyFavSong();
var myChannel:SoundChannel = new SoundChannel();
var lastPosition:Number = 0;
myChannel = mySound.play();
pause_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClickPause);
function onClickPause(e:MouseEvent):void{
    lastPosition = myChannel.position;
    myChannel.stop();
    stopMovieClip(container);
    pause_btn.visible = false;
    play_btn.visible = true;
function stopMovieClip(mc:MovieClip):void{
  mc.stop();
  for (var i:int = 0; i < mc.numChildren; i++)
  var mcChild = mc.getChildAt(i);
     if (mcChild is MovieClip) stopMovieClip(mcChild);
play_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClickPlay);
function onClickPlay(e:MouseEvent):void{
    myChannel = mySound.play(lastPosition);
    playMovieClip(container);
    pause_btn.visible = true;
    play_btn.visible = false;
function playMovieClip(mcPlaying:MovieClip):void{
  mcPlaying.play();
  for (var j:int = 0; j < mcPlaying.numChildren; j++)
  var mcPlay = mcPlaying.getChildAt(j);
     if (mcPlay is MovieClip) playMovieClip(mcPlay);   
And the .fla: http://www30.zippyshare.com/v/71537447/file.html
The movieclip named "container" is the parent which contains three different child movieclips (1-10, 10-1, colours) 1-10 is on the top layer and is the only movieclip which plays and pauses the others get ignored but if I swap the order round the others work only if they are on the top layer.
It's probably easier to check out the .fla than to try to explain it!
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Phil

Answer 1

First off, your stopMovieClip function is not closed - you're missing the } after the one that closes the for loop.
Then within that function you are calling stopMovieClip - instead of just calling stop on the clip. It's not a recursive function so that's not going to work.
I think you want something like this:
function stopMovieClip(mc:MovieClip):void{
  mc.stop();
  for (var i:int = 0; i < mc.numChildren; i++)
  var mcChild = mc.getChildAt(i);
     if (mcChild is MovieClip){
          mcChild.stop();