Root hassle

greetings.

trying to get a “close me” movie clip to accomplish two things:

[LIST]
[]turn off the visibility of the movie clip it’s on
[
]turn ON the visibility of a different movie clip on the root layer
(in the example below it’s called “instructionHelp”)[/LIST]I’ve tried all sorts of code, but nothing works. instinct says this:

parent.instructionHelp.visible = true;

obviously…that’s wrong - any ideas?