I know I've been posting a lot of questions lately, so I'll try and keep them "complicated," as in you can't find them on Google easily or at all.

I've got a movie clip on frame 2, but I want to access its properties using actionscript in frame one. However, frame 2 hasn't been played yet. I know that once it has been played, typing trace(movieclip) returns "_level0.movieclip", but I want to grab some properties from it before I actually get to frame 2. If I trace(_level0.movieclip), I get an "undefined." Is there any way to get the properties of a movie clip on a frame that hasn't been played through yet? Or does flash actually have to initiate these objects when the frame plays for you to be able to access them?

I couldn't come up with a coherant search query for google on this one.