Thank you FlashCanon. I added the
rollOver="trace(event.currentTarget.parent.getChildIndex(event.currentTarget))"
to my custom itemRenderer and that is tracing out an index value. Now
the only problems lies in what Tracy had said in her first response
about how only 5 items exist at once in a 10 item list. My list
displays four items at a time but has 6 total. Therefore if I scroll
over to item 6 and rollOver it, the index shows up as four, because it
is now the 4th item in the list. Not sure what I am going to do about
that one.