Trouble loading external swf into movie clip

Hello

I’m trying to load an external swf inside of my movie clip. I’m having a few troubles though.

meter.loadMovie(“external.swf”);

I managed to get the above to work but as soon as i press a button in the external movie it reacts with my main movie! So a button in the external movie that makes the timeline go to frame 2 makes the main flash file to goto frame 2.

Also, can you load external swf files that use external folders for content?

Basically I have an interactive diabetes meter and it’s all controlled via scripting ( I didn’t create it ) but it has the main swf file which you load. However it references other folders and scripting files. Should this be a problem?

Many thanks in advance

Tristan