Problem with Scroll Panes

Hello, I’m trying to use scroll panes for the first time and I’m having trouble targeting the movieclips inside of the scroll pane. to clarify the set up the whole scrollpane set up is inside of bigger movieclip (mc1) which gets added dynamicaly to the stage through actionscript. I placed a scrollpane on the timeline then used the components inspector to specify a movieclip(mcContent) as the content. the movieclip has several other movieclips(link1, link2, etc.) nested inside which will act as links. that is what i need to target. my code looks like

mc1.scrollPane.mcContent.link1.buttonMode = true;

The thing is it doesn’t work and I get an error which says

ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property mnuLinks_mc not found on fl.containers.ScrollPane and there is no default value.

if anyone knows what i did wrong any help would be greatly appreciated.