CodingForums.com - Creating Text Field

I have this movie that pulls data from an XML file and creates a small menu of pictures. It works just fine, it will create the pictures just perfectly and the consequent click function works fine too. My problem is I'm trying to create a text field underneath each picture to hold a little bit of text, I can get it to create, it even has a surrounding box. I can even select the text and copy and paste it into another program just fine. The problem is that the text is invisible. What am I doing wrong here? Here is my code:

Code:

var thumb_spacing = 154;

var thumb2_spacing = 104;



// load variables object to handle loading of text

var description_lv = new LoadVars();

description_lv.onData = function(raw_text){

        s = "";

        if ( raw_text.indexOf( "\r" ) ) s = raw_text.split("\r").join("");

        _root.student_page.student_txt.text = s;

}



function GeneratePortfolio(portfolio_xml){

        var portfolioPictures = portfolio_xml.firstChild.childNodes;

        for (var i = 0; i < portfolioPictures.length; i++){

                var currentPicture = portfolioPictures[i];

                

                var currentThumb_mc = student_menu.menu_items.menu_pics.createEmptyMovieClip("thumbnail_mc"+i,i);

                currentThumb_mc._y = i * thumb_spacing;

                

                currentThumb_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("thumb_container",0);

                currentThumb_mc.thumb_container.loadMovie(currentPicture.attributes.image);

                

                var currentThumb_txt = student_menu.menu_items.menu_text.createEmptyMovieClip("text_mc"+i,i);

                currentThumb_txt._y = currentThumb_mc._y + 100;

                currentThumb_txt.createTextField("text_container",0,0,0,80,40);

                

                currentThumb_txt.text_container.multiline = true;

                currentThumb_txt.text_container.type = "dynamic";

//                currentThumb_txt.text_container.selectable = false;

                currentThumb_txt.text_container.embedFonts = true;

                currentThumb_txt.text_container.wordWrap = true;

                currentThumb_txt.text_container.border = true;



                text_container_format = new TextFormat();

                text_container_format.color = 0xff0000;

                text_container_format.font = "Arial";

                text_container_format.size = 12;

                text_container_format.bold = true;



                currentThumb_txt.text_container.text = currentPicture.attributes.firstname+"\r"+currentPicture.attributes.lastname;

                currentThumb_txt.text_container.setTextFormat(text_container_format);

                

                currentThumb_mc.firstname = currentPicture.attributes.firstname;

                currentThumb_mc.lastname = currentPicture.attributes.lastname;

                currentThumb_mc.image = currentPicture.attributes.image;

                currentThumb_mc.description = currentPicture.attributes.description;

                

                

                //currentThumb_mc.onRollOver = currentThumb_mc.onDragOver = function(){

                //        info_txt.text = this.title;

                //}

                //currentThumb_mc.onRollOut = currentThumb_mc.onDragOut = function(){

                //        info_txt.text = "";

                //}

                currentThumb_mc.onRelease = function(){

                        _root.student_page.student_image.loadMovie(this.image);

                        _root.student_page.name_text.text = this.firstname+" "+this.lastname;

                        description_lv.load(this.description);

                }

        }

}



// xml object for xml content (defines sources for selections)

var portfolio_xml = new XML();

portfolio_xml.ignoreWhite = true;

portfolio_xml.onLoad = function(success){

        if (success) GeneratePortfolio(this);

        else trace("Error loading XML file"); // no success?  trace error (wont be seen on web)

}

// load

portfolio_xml.load("5to.xml");