Question about Absolute targeting in a loaded movie

hi.
i’m in the process of building a movie that is to be loaded and played into another main swf. the targeting (which is multi-level) works fine when the movie is played by itself but when it’s loaded and played in the main swf some of the targeting doesn’t work. i’ve tried using _parent. and stuff like that but it’s not working. any ideas? can someone point me in the right direction? the frustrating thing is that some of the targeting does work. thanks.