Alrighty, here goes nothing.
I have a movie that i’m loading into another movie that is loaded into another movie (so three movies, two of which load into the main, one of which loads into the secondary movie that loads into the main movie). The third (lowest “level”) movie has three buttons in it. they are set to play the _root.movieclip function of that movie, and when tested they work. however, when you test the first movie (index movie), the buttons don’t seem to do the job anymore.
i tried different variations of _root and _parent but nothing seemed to work. I also tried to load the movie into a container mc named “container” but it doesn’t allow the following syntax to load that into a level:
loadMovie("project2.swf", container, 9);
where container is the name of the target movie clip i want to load into and 9 is the level i was trying to load (this syntax outputs an error). I’ve been working on it for well around two hours now and am getting sick of looking at it and reading stuff to try and figure it out. i’m pretty sure i’m just missing something very basic and one of you is going to think i’m an idiot for it, but i’d be more than glad to take that title if you could help me 
Thanks in advance to anyone that helps me out.
