Variable problems local and global score

Question

Hi i'm having problem of writing a value to a global variable
in a function and using this variable affterwards. My problems is
the following i have a firstProduct variable that is initialized as
global at the begining of my code and the i have an XML on load
function where i should take the first child and write it to his
variable and use it afterwards for passing it as a variable to PHP
but this is irrelevant, however when im trying to trace im getting
undefined any suggestions ?? here is the code

Answer 1

when i trace the variable inside the function on load it
writes it but when i try to access it outside it is undefined im
really frustrated, how the heck i assing values to variables in
actionscript where i can access them from any frame that i want. do
u have any suggesstions?