Cross-scene variables and movie clip tinting

I've been trying to use a color picker to set a variable on one scene, then on the next scene making it tint a movie clip with the color of the color picker from the previous scene.

I've searched for ways to create global variables (I'm using AS3 btw), and tried them, but I keep getting an error along the lines of; "You can't have nested classes".

Can anyone help?

Not without seeing some code, probably not much help.

When you import your as files are they following the class/package rules? Everything named EXACTLY the same?