Populating a dynamic array with objects and managing it in runtime.

So I'm another stuck firstyear. I'll try and make my question compact. I'm using Flash CS6 and have drawn an animated character on the stage that consists of separate parts that are animated and its head is a separate class/symbol entirely because it has not only animation, but a state switch timeline as well. This said Head extends the Main that is the character MovieClip.

I am using a dynamic array to store and .push and .splice objects of another class that would collide with this said Head.

I also discovered the super() function that is implicitly called as the constructor of the parent in any child class that extends the parent, in this case Head extends Main. The issue is that my collidable object array is populated within the main, within the function that spawns every next collidable object with a TimerEvent. This said function then gets called twice due to the super() call.

I have tried putting this super() call into an impossible statement in my child class, but it doesn't change a thing, and it was said that this method is unsafe so I don't even know if it should be working.

However what confuses me the most is when I trace() the .length of my collidable object array at the end of that function. As I said earlier, the original function both spawns an object after a period of Timer(1000) and adds it to the stage as well as adds the object onto the object array, but the super() constructor only duplicates the length call and a creates a copy of the object on the stage, but it does not add the second copy of the object onto the array. The trace() output goes on like so:

1

1

2

2

3

3

4

4

etc.

I wonder why and I'm really stumped by this.

Here is the code in question:

public class Main extends MovieClip {
                    public var nicesnowflake: fallingsnow;
                    var nicesnowflakespawntimer: Timer = new Timer(1000);
                    public var nicesnowflakearray: Array = new Array(); 
                    public function Main() {
                              nicesnowflakespawntimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, nicesnowflakespawn);
                              nicesnowflakespawntimer.start();
                    }
                    public function nicesnowflakespawn(event:TimerEvent) : void {
                              nicesnowflake = new fallingsnow;
                              nicesnowflake.x = Math.random()* stage.stageWidth;
                              nicesnowflake.y = - stage.stageHeight + 100;
                              nicesnowflakearray.push(nicesnowflake);
                              stage.addChild(nicesnowflake);
                              trace(nicesnowflakearray.length);
                              for (var i:Number = 0; i < nicesnowflakearray.length; i++){
                                        nicesnowflakearray.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, snowhit);
                              }
                    }
                    public function snowhit(event:Event) : void {
                              if (nicesnowflakearray[0].y >= 460){
                                        if (nicesnowflakearray[0].y == stage.stageHeight) {
                                        nicesnowflakearray.splice(nicesnowflakearray.indexOf(nicesnowflake), 1); 
                              }
                              //if (this.hitTestObject(nicesnowflake)){
                                        //trace("hit");
                              }
                    }

I am also fiddling with the collision, but I believe that it would sort itself out when I deal with the array pop and depop properly. However I'm pasting it anyway in case the issue is subtly hidden somewhere I'm not looking for it. And here is the child class:

public class Head extends Main {
                    public function Head(){
                              if (false){
                                        super();
                              }
                              this.stop();
                    }
          }
}

So like what happens at the moment is that the array gets populated by the first object that spawns, but there is two objects on the stage, then when the objects reach stage.460y mark the array splices() the one object away and displays an error:

"#1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.

          at Main/snowhit()"

then when the next object spawns, it repeats the process. Why does it trace the array.length as "1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, etc" until the despawn point and then goes on to display an error and then starts from 1 again, because if the array length is more than one object at the time when the first object of the array gets spliced away, shouldn't it go on as usual, since there are other objects in the array?

Thank you very much to whomever will read this through.