Random location for a random movie clip

I have various movie clips which I need to appear in one of
four locations randomly. I need the movie clip to also be random. I
also need more than one movie clip on stage at the same time. I
believe the following needs to be used:
Math.random
duplicateMovieClip
I also believ that the method needs to be generic. Apart from
that I am stuck.
Any help/ideas are appreciated.
Hope my question makes sense?

good point. to be honest thinking about it I dont really know
why
I have four movie clips, which the user controls called
user1
user2
user3
user4.
In addition I have 6 additional movie clips which I need to
appear and move (randomly) in one of four locations (based on a
standard stage size):
locations 1 (start position)
x co-ordiantes 138.3
y co-ordiantes 62.8
locations 2 (start position)
x co-ordiantes 549.3
y co-ordiantes 53.8
locations 3 (start position)
x co-ordiantes 137.3
y co-ordiantes 156.8
locations 4 (start position)
x co-ordiantes 543.3
y co-ordiantes 147.8
locations 1 (finish position)
x co-ordiantes 291.3
y co-ordiantes 162.8
locations 2 (finish position)
x co-ordiantes 397.3
y co-ordiantes 162.8
locations 3 (finish position)
x co-ordiantes 280.3
y co-ordiantes 257.8
locations 4 (finish position)
x co-ordiantes 400.3
y co-ordiantes 258.9
The maximum number of movie clips moving between the two
positions at once should be 6. Ideally more than one from one
location
I would also like the speed at which they move to be
different.
The idea is that if a colission occurs between any one of the
moving movie clips and the avatar(user 1-4) then points are added.
Hope this helps.
Thanks
******************

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harder to know when
to use what approach. For buttons and movie clips, the
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handler functions operate in the same scope as the object to
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AS3, the scope
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refers to
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I've uploaded a handful of FLA files to my server. I won't
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http://www.quip.net/RewindTestAS3.fla
http://www.quip.net/RewindTestAS3_new.fla
http://www.quip.net/RewindTestAS2_new.fla
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http://tinyurl.com/2s28a5
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