Another controlling movieclips question

I have this working pretty well now, but I have hit a snag that I can’t seem to get around.

I’m trying to create a button that triggers the movieclips in the rollovers of my other buttons to draw attention to them. I am doing this by creating a movieclip and putting it on the stage in the first scene. I have, by testing, noticed that I am successfully getting the button to trigger the start of this movieclip.

Within this movieclip, called “titlebarFREAKOUT”, though, is where the trouble arises. I have put the following code onto one of the frames in titlebarFREAKOUT.

_parent.titlebarTCPsideways.titlebartcpRO.gotoAndPlay(1);
I used parent because titlebarFREAKOUT is located within the main scene, which is also the location of titlebarTCPsideways. Within titlebarTCPsideways (a button), on the roll over frame, is titlebartcpRO.

Yes, I named all the instances, yes they’re all on the stage. Does anybody have an idea as to why it isn’t working?