Randomly generating movieClips from the library onto the stage

Hi
I am trying to call objects from the library for a collection game.
Having major issues with the best way to assign the good objects and the bad objects to later update a score.
Can anyone help me with how i can first assign the movieClips from the library into a good and bad array and then after randomally fill the stage with them.
Regards
James

again and always when testing in the ide, use the trace() function to debug your code:
public function checkCollisions()
                              for (var i:int = objects.length - 1; i >= 0; i--)
                                        if (Point.distance(new Point(gamesprite.car.x,gamesprite.car.y),new Point(objects[i].x,objects[i].y)) < pickupDistance)
                                                  if (objects[i].hitTestobjects(gamesprite.car))
                                                            if (objects[i].typestr == "good")
                                                                      score += 10;
                                                                      trace(score);
                                                            else
                                                                      score -= 4;
                                                                      trace(score);
                                                            if (score < 0)
                                                                      score = 0;
                                                            scoreDisplay.text = String(score);
trace(scoreDisplay.text);
                                                            removeChild(objects[i]);
                                                            objects.splice(i,1);
if you don't see any trace() output, you can conclude that part of your code is not executing. if see trace output, you can don't see the same value in scoreDisplay, you can conclude you're not seeing your scoreDisplay textfield.

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