HA! I did it! I figured out what the problem is and why the variable was not getting passed back to the main timeline in level0.

I set the variable in frame 1 of the main timeline to selection = "new" so that the entire movie would have some reference of it when it was changed on the button click. I'm guessing that the movie just left the value in the movie clip since the variable wasn't established before!!

YEAH!! THanks again DEEP!!!! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]