Multidimensional Arrays Lose Values Between Frames?

I'm populating a multidimensional array from an XML file, and that seems to be working fantastic, but when I skip ahead a few frames, all the values in the array are zero length or Null, is there some trick I need to do to preserve the data?

I've tried doing everything at _root.[ArrayName], but that's not cutting it. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I'm sure this is something dumb, but I'm pretty new to flash.

Thanks.

Hi, not sure what's causing that. A quick solution might be to create an empty movie clip and store the array in that. Then you can reference the array via that clip anywhere on the timeline.

I found it, turns out I wasn't waiting for the xml to complete loading so I added a wait instruction and it works like a champ now.