tab order for textboxes etc

hey guys,

i wander if anyone can help me with this one...

i am diplicating 2 instances of a movie clip which contains textboxes and a tab-order for them. when i click a button and the first one pops up, i can tab through the fields just fine. however, when i duplicate the second mc and try to tab through the textfields, the tabbing reaches the end and then jumps to the start of the other mc.

originally i had the problem that with two instances the tabbing would jump from one text box in one instance to the same textbox in the other instance, then back to the first but on to the next box. i realised that the way around this was to dynamically rename each set of textboxes within an instance by appending a unique identifier to the name (mytextbox_7, mysecondbox_7 etc) and then applying the tab order to the new names.

the tab order in flash mx is a global thing. this is why when the tabbing has finished, it will continue onto the next available element with a tab set.

is there any way of localising the tab order for the whole movie to just that one movieclip that is in focus??

...this one's bumming me out!