Rollover in loaded swf

ive got a main swf that uses buttons(with rollovers) to load other swf’s onto the main stage. one of the swf’s that gets loaded is a links page. on that page i also use buttons with rollovers. when the links page is loaded into the main stage i cant see the rollover animation on the links. i think it has to do with the _root in the code but im not sure.
heres the code I use for the links rollovers.

on  (rollover)  {
_root.rollover.gotoAndPlay("point");
}
on  (rollout)  {
_root.rollover.gotoAndPlay("pointoff");
}

heres the one i use on the main stage

on  (rollover)  {
_root.rollover2.gotoAndPlay("news");
}
on  (rollout)  {
_root.rollover2.gotoAndPlay("newsoff");
}