StageVideo on top problem

Hi all,
Hope someone can help me. I'm working with StageVideo to make a videoloop but I can't get to put the video on the background, as I need to. It is instead loaded on top of all my flash elements. I don't know where the problem is and I'm going nuts, since StageVideo is supposed to be always on the background, behind the Stage elements.
I have an external SimpleStageVideo.as class, it's an Air 3.7, desktop application and the code inside the flash is:
import flash.media.*;
import flash.net.*;
import flash.display.Stage;
//// vars I need for the loop
var Insertada = false;
var Parar = false;
var loopVideo=false;
var screensaver:SimpleStageVideo;
Main();
function Main() {
//     testMode();
accionTemp(null);     //carga el vídeo
function accionTemp(e:TimerEvent):void{
cargaVideo("videoA");
loopVideo=false;
Insertada = true;
trace("actiontimer");
Parar=false;
////////////// loading StageVideo //////////////////////////////
function cargaVideo(str:String):void{
screensaver = new SimpleStageVideo();
addChild(screensaver);
screensaver.connectionStream();
////////////// image to be loaded on top of the video, not working//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
var imageURLRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("image.jpg");
var myImageLoader:Loader = new Loader();
myImageLoader.load(imageURLRequest);
myImageLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(E  vent.COMPLETE, imageLoaded);
function imageLoaded(e:Event):void {
var myBitmapData:BitmapData = new BitmapData(myImageLoader.width, myImageLoader.height);
myBitmapData.draw(myImageLoader);
var myBitmap:Bitmap = new Bitmap;
myBitmap.bitmapData = myBitmapData;
this.addChild(myBitmap);
myBitmap.x=280;
myBitmap.y=230;
Thanks a lot for your help!

Hi kglad,
Thanks for your help! The problem was in the class indeed, as you said
Now it works perfectly.
Greetings!!

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