Buttons in a scrollpane

What I have is a scrollpane with a movieclip in it. Now that movie clip is the scrollable area in the scrollpane on the main menu. Now in that movie clip are some buttons and text after the button telling you about the button you want to press and what you will read. (its just emails from my friends that make me laugh. So it will say Friends Name and then give a brief sentence from the email. So you click the friends name (cuz its a button) and it will load a text box filled with my friends email on the right in a movie clip. which has an actions layer, and then a email layer which just has the text on a keyframe every 10 frames.

So now I click the button in the scrollpane movie clip and it doesnt control the other movie clip. Heres the code im using.

on (release) {
emails.gotoAndStop(“email1”);
}

Some info, The scrollabe list of buttons that control the emails and have a short description are called Scrollableemails.
The movieclip where the emails text is shown is called emails.

Im at a lose here. Any help will do. Thank you.

Try this:[AS]on (release) {
_root.emails.gotoAndStop(“email1”);
}[/AS]Double check and make sure that the Movie Clip containing the emails has the Instance Name of emails.