Director doubt : How to create persistent display Objects?

I have been using director for quite some now, but I have come across this weird problem now.
I need to create a display object which must persist, even when I change scenes.

Initially I assumed that, not inserting the object into any display group will do. But that doesn’t seem to work.
Even if I create a display object which is not in a display group, it gets cleaned up when I change scene.

So, any suggestions? Or am I doing something wrong? [import]uid: 64174 topic_id: 25542 reply_id: 325542[/import]