Swapping movie clips in AS2

[StrykerOfChaos]

Not sure if this is possible, but for my game I am trying to swap movie clips from my library with movie clips on the stage. Example: I have a monster pop-up, when I click it I want it to be swapped with a new movie clip of that monster burning. I need it to keep the same animation (appears in place of the monster clicked, then moves down into hiding) Right now I have attachMovie setup so that when I click the monster the burned monster does appear on the stage, but at the resting point of the monster clicked (where it sits at frame 0) and it's not masked.

Right now this is what I have

			    _root[numMonsters].onPress = function()
			    {//start of onPress function for numMonsters
				   if(this._currentframe >= 12 and this._currentframe <= 17)
				   {
					 monsterTakeDmg()  
					 this.play(); //makes the Monster go down if hit
				     hitCount++; //raises the hits by 1
				     scoreDisplay.monstersHit_text.text = hitCount + " Slain";
					 this.attachMovie("mc_MonsterFire", "Monster",  0);
					 
					 
				   }
				   
			    }//end of onPress function for numMonsters

[Vlykarye]

You could always just place the burning frames into the nonburrning monster movieclip.
Or, make a full monster movieclip and put the other two in it.