Random Movie Clips loop

Hey there.
I have a question about randomizing Movie Clips:
I am attaching an example where 12 movie clips will be called
into stage.
(movieA1, movieA2, movieA3....)
I am trying to create a situation where instead of triggering
"movieA1" and so on, the code will trigger:
movieA1 OR movieB1
movieA2 OR movieB2
movieA3 OR movieB3 and so on......
can anyone help here with how to apply it?
Thanks!
note that the attached code triggers AllMovies (MovieA's),
MovieB's are not in code yet, only in the library, because I am not
sure how to code such a thing.
adamlewen

All I posted was a replacement to the corresponding
attachMovie portion of your code... as you had in your first post.
If I've made a correct allowance for the wrapping it should be in
the 6th line of code beginning with
var Movie:MovieClip = _root["Movie"+i] =holder.attachMovie
etc
What I suggested is only making a change to the first
parameter to include a
B or no B in the library ID that's requested by the
holder.attachMovie part.
The way its set up (if you use this changed attachMovie) it
will randomise each time that makeAllMovies is called.
If I was doing something like this I'd be inclined to set up
the holder clips once. And then load the randomised content clips
inside on the setInterval call to something like your makeAllMovies
function. I also think you'd need to use removeMovieClip for
previously attached content clips before attaching each time as I
don't think it just replaces ("overwrites") the old one. I've seen
other posts where if you attachMovie the same library item with the
same name in the same holder clip, you end up with 2 instances
(flash apparently appends a number to one of them each time). If
this is indeed the situation and happened each time, it would
probably cause some problems.
Don't know if that helps. Kglad or others may have more
insight in this area where I've indicated uncertainty.

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> My problem first appeared very simple, but I have spent
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> think how to solve it. I must say that I am very much an
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> in Flash and ActionScript.
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