Problem navigating timeline

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I am really new to actionscript 3 and am having some trouble wrapping my brain around this. I have what basically amounts to a slideshow with navigation. I have a menu frame that has buttons, that when clicked, move across the timeline to a specific frame and stops.

From there the navigation has 3 buttons…“menu” (goes back to menu) and “previous” and “next” which have actions associated with it to go to next frame or previous frame. I have an actions layers that has the code in it and it works fine from the menu (attached is the menu actionscript) as long as I click on the item that is on the keyframe directly under the keyframe containing the actionscript. How can I get the frames that aren’t directly under the actionscript frame to use the actions?

Attached is the code for the menu keyframe and the slides beyond it

/////////////////////////////////////////// code for the menu keyframe on it’s own actions layer
stop();
import flash.events.MouseEvent;

btnShoulder.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);

function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void
{
gotoAndStop(41)

}

btnWrist.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick2);

function onClick2(event:MouseEvent):void
{
gotoAndStop(50)

}

btnKnee.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick3);

function onClick3(event:MouseEvent):void
{
gotoAndStop(44)

}

btnAdvantage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick4);

function onClick4(event:MouseEvent):void
{
gotoAndStop(52)

}

////////////////////////////////// actions for the frames beyond the menu frame

stop();
import flash.events.MouseEvent;

btnMenu.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick6);

function onClick6(event:MouseEvent):void
{
gotoAndStop(40);

}

btnPrevious.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goBack);
btnNext.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goForward);

function goBack(event:MouseEvent):void {

if (currentFrame == 40) 
{ 
    stop(); 
} 
else 
{ 
    this.prevFrame(); 
}

}
function goForward(event:MouseEvent):void {

if (currentFrame == 52) 
{ 
    stop(); 
} 
else 
{ 
this.nextFrame();
}

}

var lc:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();

btnClose.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, closeMe, false, 0, true);

function closeMe(e:MouseEvent): void {

btnClose.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, closeMe);

lc.send("lcClient","closeBio");

}