Sound Problem!

Hi All!
I am new to flash and am stuck on a sound issue. When my flash webpage first loads it loads an external music file that is a .SWF, like this:
loadMovieNum(”music1.swf”,2);
And I have a play/Stop button at on the page that stops the sound right now using this code:
on (release) {
gotoAndStop(2);
}
on (release) {
_parent.eqq.gotoAndPlay(”pl”);
_root.soundstatus = “off”;
}
The problem is that I have another Video that I embedd on Level 1, and when the stop button is pressed, it stops all the sound not just the music file sound that is running on level 2.
I tried:
_level2.soundstatus = “off”;
instead of
_root.soundstatus = “off”;
but no luck. I would like for only the music to be stoped. Can ANyone Please help!!??!!!?