Targetting an MC - proper syntax

I am targeting a a movie clip. The problem is that all the syntax I have found for targetting clips looks like this:

_root.sample_mc.sample2.mc. etc.

The problem is, my target clip is in an swf that I’ve loaded into a container clip from my main timeline.

So, essentially, I have a home.swf that loads menu.swf into a container called ‘location’. In menu.swf, I have an MC called center, which contains the MC I am targetting called ‘target’.

Can someone enlighten me as to what the proper path would be to target my ‘target’ MC?

Thanks a lot!