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The static stack is what you have created manually in your main timeline or in a movie clip's timeline. On the main, or on a movie clip's timeline, the object at the bottom is at stack level 0. The programmatic stack and the player level stack all follow the same convention, which is basically the same as the z-index levels in javascript.

Soooo, your swf shouldn't work. The images should be coming up below the other images. Why it does work, I can't say. If LM2 were still "alive", I'd be digging away at this until I found an answer - but given that the prog is discontinued, it isn't worth the time.

It's probably a quirk similar to the quirks I've seen when working with complicated nested masks, and it seems to show the same behavior. I have some mask files that will work fine on one export, but if you simply export the exact same LIV again, the masks might not work. No explanation for it, it just is.

I learned to carefully preserve the export that did work, and I suppose you just need to do the same thing. The swf you have up now seems to work fine. If it's doing what you want, it ain't broke, so we won't try to fix it, even if it defies proper coding convention!