Empty movie clips within other empty movie clips

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i’m building a site where i load external swfs within empty movie clips - pretty standard. the problem i’m having is that within these external swfs are additional empty movie clips that load external swfs. these ones are coded the same in as the ones in the main menu document, which works fine by the way, and they work on there own, but when they’re in the main menu, they don’t work anymore. the buttons come up, but none of the content loads in the empty movie clip the way that i need it to. anybody have any suggestions? i appreciate it in advance.

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i’m building a site where i load external swfs within empty movie clips - pretty standard. the problem i’m having is that within these external swfs are additional empty movie clips that load external swfs. these ones are coded the same in as the ones in the main menu document, which works fine by the way, and they work on there own, but when they’re in the main menu, they don’t work anymore. the buttons come up, but none of the content loads in the empty movie clip the way that i need it to. anybody have any suggestions? i appreciate it in advance.

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Can you post the script you’re using? I think it might have something to do with levels, try changing _root. to _parent. in the clips within clips… I’m sorry, now I’m confused.

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i tried that. to load the movies that the buttons access in the empty movie frame, i used:
on (release) {
_parent.p2kcontents.loadMovie(“birfday.swf”);
}
and to load the movie that would play initially without hitting any buttons, i used

_parent.p2kcontents.loadMovie(“party2000animation.swf”);

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don’t crosspost!

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wait, now the buttons are working but the intitial movie that i want to run isn’t. my buttons are there and nothing else, until i hit a button.
i’m using this to have something load initially in the empty movie clip without hitting any buttons:
_parent.p2kcontents.loadMovie(“party2000animation.swf”);

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what does “don’t crosspost” mean? what’s my alternative? the only difference in my original menu is that i’ve made it all _root first, and it all works. something loads initially, and then new things load when i click buttons. i’ve changed it all to _parent in the sub-swf. everything’s working except the initial movie that would play without anyone clicking anything.