Loading external movies

After following the tutorial found here, I felt confident enough to make my own, but small Flash site. I ran into a small problem, however: when creating the buttons for the navigation menu, I cannot seem to get them to work.

My problem is this:

I did as Kirupa did and used

on (release) {
_root.empty clip.loadMovie(“url to load.swf”);
}

but whenever the first page of the site comes up, I cannot click on the words that serve as points to load. Doing exactly as Kirupa did in his tutorial (I worked backwards to see how he did his, then retraced the steps forward on my site), I come up with nothing. I made the menu a movie clip, each of the words buttons, and they should properly load the movies specified. By description, can someone help? If not, I will load up some screen shots so that those might help. Thanks for the time in reading this. It is much appreciated!