Putting movie clips in AS3 package into movie clip on stage

Hi - I am a as2/flash animator and am working on an AS3
project. The AS is in a separate file, inside a package. I am
modifying existing code.
The script adds movie clips in a function via addchild.
What I am hoping to do, is have the movieclips added to a
clip that already exists on the stage.
I put a clip on the stage named holder, with the instance
name holder_mc - and I tried to add the clip with
holder_mc.addchild in the AS3 file - it seemed to work, but
manipulating the holder_mc - it looks like the added clips are not
affected?
Any help is appreciated.

Child_array is a property of the Parent class.
It's only added to in one point, in a function that creates a
Child and adds it to the array.
I think I might have found out the problem with my code after
adding a trace to the function, think I'm creating twice the number
of clips I'm removing, and the deletion part of my code is fine!
Turns out AS3 is maybe not so bad after all :P
Thanks alot for taking the time to reply though kglad!

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