Populating listboxes embedded in an accordion from an XML file... Help!

[TooDerisive]

I'm having a hard time understanding why this won't work I'm hoping someone here can help me.

I have an XML file as such:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<galleries>
   <gallery id="animations" displayName="Animation">
      
   </gallery>
   <gallery id="graphics" displayName="Graphic Designs">
   
   </gallery>
   <gallery id="illustrations" displayName="Illustrations">
      <item id="tu" displayName="Tu" src="illustrations/tu.jpg">This is a character</item>
      <item id="pirate" displayName="Pirate" src="illustrations/pirate.jpg">This is a</item>
      <item id="psyloke" displayName="Psyloke" src="illustrations/psyloke.jpg">X-Men</item>
   </gallery>
   <gallery id="websites" displayName="Web Design">
   
   </gallery>
</galleries>

Then I have my flash document which has
an accordion instanced as "navAccordion" on my main timeline
I created a movie clip named "listBoxContainer" and added a listbox to the movie clip instancing it as "listBoxContainer"

Then I have my external as file:
_global.style.setStyle( "themeColor", "haloOrange" );

import mx.core.View;

var xml = new XML();        //setup a variable to hold the XML
xml.ignoreWhite = true;
xml.load( "galleries.xml" );    //load the XML file
//The following gets called when the XML has been loaded
xml.onLoad = function( status )  {
   if ( !status )
      trace( status );
   var galleries = this.firstChild.childNodes;
   for( var i = 0; i < galleries.length; i++ ){
         gallery = galleries[ i ];
         var tab = navAccordion.createChild( "listBoxContainer", gallery.attributes.id, {label: gallery.attributes.displayName });      
         var files = gallery.childNodes;
         for( var j = 0; j < files.length; j++ ){
               var file = files[ j ];
               tab.listBoxContainer.addItem( file.attributes.displayName );
         }
   }
} //end xmllist.onload

Here's the deal.  It populates the accordion tabs correctly and applies a listbox instance to each of them.  But it will not populate the listboxes.
If I do it manually OUTSIDE the onLoad function then it works... otherwise no joy.

Please help!
-TooDerisive

[Andresss]

hey hi welcome aboard,have you tried using a trace()??, inside your MC the "listBoxContainer" trace the level:
trace(this), and you'll see that the level is static so instead of using:

tab.listBoxContainer.addItem( file.attributes.displayName );
//use the level traced for instance:
traced_level.listBoxContainer.addItem({label:file.attributes.displayName,data:""});
//

now as i saw in your code you say you have the same name for the listBox and for its parent MC, you should try with different names so you don't get confusing at all, for example here:

tab.listBoxContainer.addItem( file.attributes.displayName );//if both the list and the container MC have the same name, i believe you missed one instance name:
tab.listBoxContainer.listBoxContainer.addItem( file.attributes.displayName );

hope it helps

cheers!!