How to load manually created mc on maintimeline

programming flash
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Hi everyone,

Please bear with me and my AS3 knowledge. I have manually created an empty mc on the maintimeline named ‘loadme’. I have my buttons in a movieclip that is on stage and within that mc i have the follwing code to one of the buttons:

knowbtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, knowclick);

var loader = new Loader();

function knowclick(event:MouseEvent):void
{
loader.load(new URLRequest(“about.swf”));
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, handleContentLoader);
this.gotoAndPlay(“buyingoff”);
}

function handleContentLoader(event:Event):void
{
this.parent.loadme.addChild(loader);
}

I get an error 1119 when I run the swf. Can someone please shed some light on this? Also, is it possible to declare the variable for ‘loader’ on the maintimeline and then use it in my buttons mc?